The numerical simulation of solid-gas two-phase flow is an important tool in the prediction of its flow behavior. Predicting the axial pressure profile is one of the major difficulties in modeling of solid-gas two-phase flow. A model using a Particle Based Approach (PBA) is developed to accurately predict the axial pressure profile in a vertical annular tube. The simulation model accounts for t...

The ability of atmospheric aerosols to nucleate cloud droplets is dependent on both the particle size and composition. Organic compounds significantly contribute to particle composition; thus, their ability to act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) is crucial for understanding cloud droplet formation. While the organic fraction can significantly alter the hygroscopicity of particles, the comple...

Percolation theory is generalized to predict the effective properties of specific solid oxide fuel cell composite electrodes, which consist of a pure ion conducting material (e.g., YSZ or GDC) and a mixed electron and ion conducting material (e.g., LSCF, LSCM or CeO2). The investigated properties include the probabilities of an LSCF particle belonging to the electron and ion conducting paths, p...

Usage of oil shale produces abundant oil shale residue, which may not only directly cause serious pollution to the environment, but also result in a waste of resource. In this paper, acid leaching method and alkali soluble method were compared to obtain the optimum processing conditions for the preparation of white carbon black, which was determined as follows: the mass fraction of NaOH was 8 %...

an attempt has been made in this paper to investigate the effect of particle size distribution on coal flotation kinetics. the effect of particle size (ps) on kinetics constant (k) and maximum theoretical flotation recovery (ri) was investigated while other operational parameters were kept constant. the relationship between flotation kinetics constant and theoretical flotation recovery with par...

Abstract The effect of the solid–wall boundary condition on the segregation behavior of a sand ternary mixture differing in size but having the same proportion has been investigated in a gas–solid bubbling fluidized bed. A multi-fluid computational fluid dynamics model incorporating the kinetic theory of granular flow has been used. The mass fraction profiles of the different-sized partic...

While a large number of field investigations on aerosol CCN activity and cloud microphysics have been performed, very little information on the activation characteristics of the smallest aerosol particles (those close to or below 0.1 μm in diameter) is available. Here we approach the problem in a slightly different way to traditional methods by measuring simultaneously the cloud interstitial pa...

The performances of five portable direct-reading dust monitors were investigated in a wind tunnel for a range of industrial dusts and three sizes of aluminium oxide test dust to mainly determine their suitability for measuring the inhalable fraction of airborne dust in workplaces. The instruments tested were Split 2 (SKC Ltd), Sidepak (TSI Inc.), Dataram (Thermo Electron Ltd), PDS-2 (Sibata Sci...

We extend the Clusters model to account for the presence of rigid inclusions and use it to analyze the experimental sintering kinetics of composites of 60SiO2 . 24B2O3 . 16Na2O glass particles and zirconia fibers. We followed the densification kinetics of such composites as a function of the particle size, volume fraction of fibers, fiber to pore size ratio, temperature, and time of thermal tre...