Swelling parameters were determined for 15 seed species; the swelling quotients were found to range from less than 1.1 (castorbean) to 2.8 (mungbean) and swelling coefficients ranged from 0.09 (castorbean) to 0.42 (cowpea). Swelling leads to a lowering of specific gravity of those seeds with high initial specific gravity, and an elevation of those with low initial specific gravity. The extent o...

The wharf roach Ligia exotica is a small animal that lives by the sea and absorbs water from the sea through its legs by virtue of a remarkable array of small blades of micron scale. We find that the imbibition dynamics on the legs is rather complex on a microscopic scale, but on a macroscopic scale the imbibition length seems to simply scale linearly with elapsed time. This unusual dynamics of...

Spontaneous imbibition is a capillary-driven flow phenomenon that exists widely in nature and important for several industries. Recently, Tolman length has been introduced to improve the classical Lucas-Washburn model, order alleviate deviations calculating capillary pressure. However, experiments measure have scarce. In addition, fluid-wall friction considerable impact on process, while it oft...

The type of solid substrate plays a critical role in determining the kinetics spray fluidized bed (SFB) agglomeration process. In case porous (also soft) primary particles (PPs), droplet aging is due to imbibition and drying. surface properties also change imbibition. focus present work simulate spray-dried milk powder using Monte Carlo (MC) method coupled with drying-imbibition model. order ex...

“Fracturing network+imbibition oil production” is a new attempt to effectively develop low-permeability tight reservoirs. Fracturing fluid not only carrier for sand carrying but also tool in the process of imbibition. On basis imbibition experiments, combined with nuclear magnetic resonance and pseudo-color processing technology, this paper clarified dominant forces different types pore-throat ...