Development of dewatering textile materials incorporating slit-pore geometries

Nucleation in a slit pore

We have employed density functional theory in statistical mechanics to study the nucleation of the gas–liquid transition inside a slit pore. This is the simplest kind of pore, in which a fluid is confined between two infinite and identical planar surfaces. Equilibrium capillary condensation in such systems has been studied in the past. Here, we explore the kinetics of nucleation of the new phas...

Development of Swine Wastewater Dewatering/composting Facility

Swine production in North Carolina is second only to Iowa of hogs on farms (Graham, 1995) with 8.3 million head. Cash receipts from 1994 salts exceeded 980 million dollars representing 15.4 percent of total agricultural cash receipts. Using the underfloor flush-lagoon treatment system ofmanure management is reported to produce 950 gallons per year per pig capacity for growing-finishing operatio...

Radiation Effects in Textile Materials

Irradiation processes have several commercial applications, in the coating of metals, plastics, and glass, in printing, wood finishing, film and plastic cross-linking, and in the fields of adhesive and electrical insulations. The advantages of this technology are well known. Radiation treatment on fabric and garments can add value in coloration, antifelting, printing, and coating. In this chapt...

Electrical Actuation of Textile Polymer Materials

Polymers used in textiles were found to be effective as actuator materials with large deformation. Particularly, the polymers with low dielectric constants used to be considered inactive to electric field were turned out to be efficient actuator materials. They were classified into three types; (1) polymer gels swollen with solvents, (2) plasticized polymers, (3) bulk polymers. From the viewpoi...

Molecular dynamics simulation of supersaturated vapor nucleation in slit pore