Effect of Surface Properties on Particle Growth Kinetics for Polymer Coating in Spouted Bed

2012 ◽  
Vol 727-728 ◽  
pp. 1616-1621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boeira Braga Matheus ◽  
Cristina dos Santos Rocha Sandra

In this research, glass beads with size range between 1.68 and 2mm were coated with 5 polymeric suspensions. The suspensions formulations differ in relation to their employment and physical properties (solids concentration, surface tension and rheology), generating different characteristics of wettability and adhesion with the nucleus. The aim of this study was to evaluate particle coating in a spouted bed through analysis of particle growth in terms of solid surface energy, wettability, and adhesion before and after the formation of the first layer of polymeric film on the particle. The solid-suspension and film-suspension systems were characterized by contact angle and surface energy. The operating conditions were fixed for all suspensions: 1.5 kg of beads, air velocity of 0.369 m/s, air temperature of 60 °C, suspension flow rate of 4 ml and atomizing pressure of 10 psig. Analyzing particle growth kinetics, different behaviors were observed and related not only to glass-suspension wettability, but also to polymeric film-suspension surface properties.

Author(s):  
Meng Chen ◽  
Zhao Chen ◽  
Yaping Tang ◽  
Malin Liu

Abstract Particle coating process, one of the main methods to improve the particle properties, is widely used in industrial production and pharmaceutical industry. For the scale up and optimization of this process, a mechanistic and detailed study is needed or numerical simulation as an alternative way. Decomposition of substances usually involves multiple chemical reactions and produces multiple substances in the actual chemical reaction. In the study, a chemical reaction flow (CRF) model has been established based on kinetic mechanism of elementary reaction, the theory of molecular thermodynamics and the sweep theory. It was established with the comprehensive consideration of the decomposition of substances, deposition process, adhesion process, desorption process, hydrogen inhibition, and clearance effect. Then the CFD-DEM model was coupled with CRF model to simulate particle coating process by FB-CVD method, and the CFD-DEM-CRF coupling model was implemented in the software Fluent-EDEM with their user definition function (UDF) and application programming interface (API). The coating process in the spouted bed was analyzed in detail and the coating behavior under different conditions were compared at the aspects of CVD rate, coating efficiency, particle concentration distribution, particle mixing index and gas concentration distribution. It is found that the average CVD rate is 6.06 × 10−4 mg/s when the inlet gas velocity is 11 m/s and bed temperature is 1273 K, and simulation result agrees with the experimental result well. Average CVD rate and coating efficiency increase with temperature increasing, but decrease acutely with mass fraction of injected hydrogen increasing. The CFD-DEM-CRF coupling model can be developed as a basic model for investigating particle coating process in detail and depth and can provide some guidance for the operating conditions and parameters design of the spouted bed in the real coating process.


Author(s):  
Juliana Piña ◽  
Verónica Bucalá ◽  
Noemí Susana Schbib ◽  
Paul Ege ◽  
Hugo Ignacio de Lasa

This study reports a comprehensive multiphase gas-solid dynamic mathematical model that successfully describes the batch growth of silicon particles in a CVD submerged spouted bed reactor. This multiphase reactor model takes into account the hydrodynamics and interphase mass exchange between the different fluidized bed regions (spout or grid zone, bubbles and emulsion phase) and uses applicable kinetic rate models to describe both heterogeneous and homogeneous reactions. The model also incorporates a population balance equation representing particle growth and agglomeration.The CVD submerged spouted bed reactor operation is simulated by means of a sequential modular procedure, which involves the solution of the reactor model and the population balance equation.It is shown that the proposed CVD multiphase reactor model successfully simulates experimental data obtained from batch operation in a pilot scale reactor at REC Silicon Inc. The modeling of experiments obtained for different operating conditions allows correlating the scavenging factor as a function of the silane concentration for short- and long-term operations.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2917
Author(s):  
Madalina Rabung ◽  
Melanie Kopp ◽  
Antal Gasparics ◽  
Gábor Vértesy ◽  
Ildikó Szenthe ◽  
...  

The embrittlement of two types of nuclear pressure vessel steel, 15Kh2NMFA and A508 Cl.2, was studied using two different methods of magnetic nondestructive testing: micromagnetic multiparameter microstructure and stress analysis (3MA-X8) and magnetic adaptive testing (MAT). The microstructure and mechanical properties of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) materials are modified due to neutron irradiation; this material degradation can be characterized using magnetic methods. For the first time, the progressive change in material properties due to neutron irradiation was investigated on the same specimens, before and after neutron irradiation. A correlation was found between magnetic characteristics and neutron-irradiation-induced damage, regardless of the type of material or the applied measurement technique. The results of the individual micromagnetic measurements proved their suitability for characterizing the degradation of RPV steel caused by simulated operating conditions. A calibration/training procedure was applied on the merged outcome of both testing methods, producing excellent results in predicting transition temperature, yield strength, and mechanical hardness for both materials.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 581
Author(s):  
Yongbae Kim ◽  
Juyong Back ◽  
Jongweon Kim

A tachograph in a vehicle records the vehicle operating conditions, such as speed, distance, brake operation conditions, acceleration, GPS information, etc., in intervals of one second. For accidents, the tachograph records information, such as the acceleration and direction of a vehicle traveling in intervals of 1/100 s for 10 s before and after the accident occurs as collision data. A vehicle equipped with a tachograph is obliged to upload operation data to administrative organizations periodically via other auxiliary storage devices like a USB attached external memory or online wireless communication. If there is a problem with the recorded contents, data may be at risk of being tampered with during the uploading process. This research proposed tamper-resistant technology based on blockchain for data in online and offline environments. The suggested algorithm proposed a new data recording mechanism that operates in low-level hardware of digital tachographs for tamper-resistance in light blockchains and on/offline situations. The average encoding time of the proposed light blockchain was 1.85 ms/Mb, while the average decoding time was 1.65 ms/Mb. With the outliers in statistical tests removed, the estimated average encoding and decoding time was 1.32 ms/Mb and 1.29 ms/Mb, respectively, and the tamper verification test detected all the tampered data.


Author(s):  
Ilaria Dominizi ◽  
Serena Gabriele ◽  
Angela Serra ◽  
Domenico Borello

Abstract Nowadays the climate change is widely recognized as a global threat by both public opinion and industries. Actions to mitigate its causes are gaining momentum within all industries. In the energy field, there is the necessity to reduce emissions and to improve technologies to preserve the environment. LCA analyses of products are fundamental in this context. In the present work, a life cycle assessment has been carried out to calculate the carbon footprint of different water washing processes, as well as their effectiveness in recovering Gas Turbine efficiency losses. Field data have been collected and analyzed to make a comparison of the GT operating conditions before and after the introduction of an innovative high flow online water washing technique. The assessments have been performed using SimaPro software and cover the entire Gas Turbine and Water Washing skids operations, including the airborne emissions, skid pump, the water treatment and the heaters.


2005 ◽  
Vol 498-499 ◽  
pp. 270-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Roberto Duarte ◽  
Valéria V. Murata ◽  
Marcos A.S. Barrozo

Spouted bed systems have emerged as very efficient fluid-particle contactors and find many applications in the chemical and biochemical industry. Some important applications of spouted beds include coal combustion, biochemical reactions, drying of solids, drying of solutions and suspensions, granulation, blending, grinding, and particle coating. An extensive overview can be found in Mathur and Epstein[1]. The pattern of solid and gas flows in a spouted bed was numerically simulated using a CFD modeling technique. The Eulerian-Eulerian multifluid modeling approach was applied to predict gas-solid flow behavior. A commercially available, control-volume-based code FLUENT 6.1 was chosen to carry out the computer simulations. In order to reduce computational times and required system resources, the 2D axisymmetric segregated solver was chosen. The typical flow pattern of the spouted bed was obtained in the present calculation. The simulated velocity and voidage profiles presented a good agreement qualitative and quantitative with the experimental results obtained by He et al. [4].


Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Alberto Di Renzo ◽  
Giacomo Rito ◽  
Francesco P. Di Maio

Multi-component liquid-fluidized beds are encountered in a variety of industrial processes. Often, segregation severely affects the performance of the process unit. Unfortunately, size-driven and density-driven separation processes may occur with a complex interplay, showing prevailing mechanisms that change with the operating conditions. For example, when the solids exhibit contrasting differences in size and density, even the direction of segregation can turn out hard to predict, giving rise for some systems to the so-called “layer inversion phenomenon”. A systematic experimental investigation is presented on 14 different binary beds composed of glass beads and ABS spheres with different size and density ratios and different bed composition. The analysis allows assessing the reliability of a model for predicting the segregation direction of fluidized binary beds (the Particle Segregation Model, PSM). By measurements of the solids’ concentration at the surface, expansion/segregation properties and the inversion voidage are compared with the PSM predictions, offering a direct means of model validation. Both the segregation direction throughout the expansion range and the value of the inversion voidage are compared. Extensive qualitative agreement is obtained for 12 out of 14 fluidized mixtures. Quantitatively, the average discrepancy between predicted and measured inversion voidage is below 5%, with a maximum of 17%.


2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 2493-2504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoon Chae Park ◽  
Byeong-Kyu Lee ◽  
Ho Seong Yoo ◽  
Hang Seok Choi

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