Manufacturing processes in which the desired product takes the form of individual particles are ubiquitous in the chemical, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. Particulate processes often are modeled using a form of the population balance equation (PBE) which describes the evolution of the particle distribution. In many applications, control of the particle distribution is necessary to ...

This paper presents an experimental design approach to the process parameter optimization for compocasting of A356-SiCp composites. Toward this end, parameters of stirring temperature, stirring time, stirring speed and SiC content were chosen and three levels of these parameters were considered. The D-optimal design of experiment (DODE) was employed for experimental design and analysis of resul...

Particle-in-cell simulations with Monte Carlo collisions are expected to calculate the velocity distribution functions of charged species correctly, even if these distribution functions have exotic features such as gross anisotropy in velocity space, marked departures from a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, or failure of the local field approximation. Correct computation of the electron energy d...

To develop an active microbial activity quickly developing stabilizing thermophilic temperatures during the composting of wastewater sludge, the bulking agent (BA) plays a major role in establishing the recipe structure, exposed particle surface area and porosity. To optimize the biodegradation of a sludge compost recipe, the objective of this paper was to study the effect and interaction of in...

In this work, the particle size distribution measured using the dynamic light scattering (DLS) technique is compared with that obtained from the static light scattering (SLS) technique or provided by the supplier measured using the Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) technique for dilute Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel and standard polystyrene latex samples in dispersion respectively. T...