This work investigates the effect of different conditions of PFO thermal cracking from two PFO samples on liquid, solid and gas product yield and asphaltene removal efficiency in a new designed experimental setup. No need to use a catalyst, simple operating system and experiment conditions, the ability to use water as a cheap carrier gas and high asphaltene extraction efficiency without the use...

The aerothermodynamics of spacecraft entering a planetary atmosphere are sensitive to the level of gas-surface accommodation governed by the gas-surface interaction. The modeling of this interaction plays an integral role in the solid surface boundary condition of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. The Maxwell, and Cercignani, Lampis and Lord (CLL) gas-surface interaction models a...

Gas-solid fluidized beds are almost always polydisperse in industrial application. However, to describe the fluid-particle interaction force in models for large-scale gas-solid flow, relations are used which have been derived for monodisperse system, for which ad-hoc modifications are made to account for polydispersity. Recently it was shown, on the basis of detailed lattice Boltzmann simulatio...

We present a mesoscopic model, based on the Boltzmann equation, for the interaction between a solid wall and a nonideal fluid. We present an analytic derivation of the contact angle in terms of the surface tension between the liquid-gas, the liquid-solid, and the gas-solid phases. We study the dependency of the contact angle on the two free parameters of the model, which determine the interacti...

Effect of scale on the hydrodynamics of gas-solid fluidized beds was investigated in two fluidized beds of 152 mm and 78 mm in diameter.  Air at room temperature was used as the fluidizing gas in the bed of sand particles. The Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT) technique was employed to obtain the instantaneous positions of the particles at every 20 ms of the experiments. These data were u...

We systematically investigate how the range of interaction between non-bonded monomers influences the formation of structural phases of elastic, flexible polymers. Massively parallel replica-exchange simulations of a generic, coarse-grained model, performed partly on graphics processing units and in multiple-gaussian modified ensembles, pave the way for the construction of the structural phase ...

In order to describe the thermomechanical behavior of landfills, a constitutive model based on the macromechanical Theory of Porous Media (TPM) for a saturated thermoelastic porous body has been developed. The body under investigation consists of an organic and inorganic solid phase and a gas phase. All interaction relations between the constituents such as mass transfers, interaction forces an...

After a brief recall of the chromatographic principles, t h e different applications of gas chromatographic measurements of thermodynamic equilibria were reviewed. Gas and liquid chromatographies are now well known and elegant methods for measuring the physicochemical properties and phase equil ibrium thermodynamic constants. Although fundamentally a dynamical method and mostly known as a power...

We study the propagation of sound in a homogeneous dipolar gas at zero temperature, known as zero sound. We find that below a critical dipolar interaction, undamped sound propagation is possible only in a range of solid angles around the direction of polarization of the dipoles. For larger interaction strength, zero sound propagates in all directions, but its nature changes as a function of dir...