in this research, the effect of micro turbulence on the flotation rate of quartz particles was investigated. the maximum particle reynolds number (rep) was obtained at 60.25 with a particle size of -500+420 µm, impeller speed of 900 rpm, bubble surface area flux of 10.21 1/s and micro scale turbulence size of 162 µm. when the micro turbulence size was equal to the particle size, the maximum flo...

Attachment of particles and droplets to bubbles—the latter being various fine sizes created by different techniques (as described in detail)—forms the basis flotation, a process which indeed was originated from mineral processing. Nevertheless, chemistry often plays significant role this area, order for separation be effective, as stressed. This (brief) review particularly discusses wastewater ...

We present in this paper a simple method to produce strategic acoustic particle capture sites microfluidic channels controlled way. Air bubbles are intermittently injected into micro-capillary with rectangular cross section during flow motion of liquid suspensions containing micron-sized particles or create bubble-defined “micro-gaps” size close 200 µm and spheroidal geometry. The establishment...

Advances in the apptication of supercritical (SC), gaseous (G), and ]iquid (LQ) C02 hayc been made regarding the interaction with biological materials or organisms. There are sevcral reports dealing with the influences of SC, G, and LQ C02 on proteins,i'2) amino acids,i) enzymes,3'S) and microbial eells.b'7) Kamihara et aL have described that wet cells (water content of 70-90g,h) of baker's yea...

Because of the micro/nano manipulation’s complexity, the accurate feedback information of the micro interactive force acting on micro devices is quite important and necessary for micro/nano manipulation, especially the 2-D micro interactive force feedback information. At present, there are no reliable and accurate 2-D micro force sensors applied in micro/nano manipulation. To solve the above pr...

All naturally occurring and most man-made solid particles are nonspherical. Examples include air-pollutants in the nano- to micro-meter range as well as blood constituents, drug particles, and industrial fluid-particle streams. Focusing on the modeling and simulation of inhaled aerosols, theories for both spherical and nonspherical particles are reviewed to analyze the contrasting transport and...

fabrication, characterization and application of micro-/nano-rods/wires are among the hottest topics in materials science and applied physics. micro-/nano-rod-based structures and devices are developed for a wide-ranging use in various fields of micro-/nanoscience (e.g. biology, electronics, medicine, optics, optoelectronics, photonics and sensors). it is well known that the structure and prope...