Density measurement for polymers by magneto-Archimedes levitation: Simulation and experiments |
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| Institution: | 1. The State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;2. The Key Laboratory of 3D Printing Process and Equipment of Zhejiang Province, College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;1. The State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China;2. The Key Laboratory of 3D Printing Process and Equipment of Zhejiang Province, College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China;3. The Key Laboratory of Polymer Processing Engineering of South China University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, 510630, China;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575, Japan;2. Fine Particles Engineering Group, Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan |
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| Abstract: | In a magneto-Archimedes levitation device, a polymer can be levitated in a paramagnetic medium, and its equilibrium levitated height is mainly related to its density. Here, a novel density measurement method for polymers via magneto-Archimedes levitation is proposed, in which the relationship between the density and the levitated height is determined through numerical simulation. COMSOL software is employed to simulate the distribution of magnetic field in the device, and FLUENT-EDEM multiphase software is adopted to predict the polymer's levitated height. A 3rd-order polynomial equation is fitted by simulation results for density calculation. Several experiments with different devices, different magnets, different mediums, and various polymers were carried out to verify the proposed method. Experimental results showed that the proposed method has high accuracy (0.0060–0.0130 g/cm3) in density measurements for small polymer samples (∼25 mm3). In general, the proposed method has prospects of broad application in polymer density-based testing. |
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| Keywords: | Density measurement Magneto-Archimedes levitation Numerical simulation Polymer testing |
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