The Measurement of Particles Suspended in a stirred vessel using microphotography and digital image analysis

A novel technique to determine the size of particles suspended in a stirred vessel is investigated. The method uses microphotography to obtain a still image of the particles in situ. The equivalent circular diameter of the particles is obtained from the photographs using digital image analysis. The particles used for the test were certified particle size standards of a very small tolerance in diameter deviation. The size comparison was determined as a percent error between the measured particle diameter (equivalent circular diameter) and the diameter established by the particle manufacturer. To determine the limiting ranges of particle size and concentrations, spherical particles in a size range of approximately 1 to 10.0 μm (microns) in diameter were employed in the test. Concentrations varied from 0.00005% to 0.1% (mass basis). For each particle size, an aqueous solution of the particles was prepared at the desired concentration and placed in a stirred vessel. Photographs of the solutions were made at 25.5x, 40x, 60x and 80x magnification. For all sizes of particles, the entire range of concentration was examined. The results indicate a minimum size resolution of approximately 3μm, in a corresponding concentration range of 0.0001% to 0.05%. Similar limits on concentration were found for the larger diameter particles, although a true upper limit for the largest particle sizes was not established. The functional concentration range appears to shift towards higher mass concentrations with increasing particle size. For 2.92 μm diameter particles, the error in size measurement was found to be below 10% for a concentration range of 0.0005% to 0.05%. Additionally, a relationship between turbidity and the error was seen at low particle concentration levels where decreasing levels of turbidity generated increasing levels of error.     

近海混浊水的附加声衰减研究——实验测量值与考虑粒径分布的理论估算值的比较

对黏滞吸收的估算分析表明,悬浮物黏滞吸收受粒径影响显著。基于混响法,本文实验测量了泥沙含量0.2~2.0 kg/m3之间的混浊海水和玻璃珠混浊水的黏滞吸收,结果表明实验测量值与考虑粒径分布的理论估算值具有更好的一致性。在实验频段内,泥沙含量为1.0 kg/m3时,采用粒径分布的理论估算值与采用平均粒径的理论估算值相比,悬浮物的黏滞吸收每100 m相差2.3~2.6 dB。在近海混浊水声衰减的估算中,悬浮物的黏滞吸收必须考虑粒径分布。      

渤海近岸水体悬浮颗粒物对后向散射特性的影响研究

进行海洋水体悬浮颗粒物的空间分布及粒径构成对后向散射特性变化影响,研究对于加深水体散射性质的认识、提高水色遥感反演参数的精度及海洋环境监测等具有重要意义。结合渤海海域2017年6月、9月的现场数据,获得了夏季、秋季各站位总悬浮颗粒物浓度(SPM)、颗粒粒径以及后向散射系数等参数并进行研究。结果表明,后向散射系数b_bp在可见光波段随波长的增加而减小;同时,夏季和秋季,大多数站位b_bp(550)的变化趋势与SPM的变化趋势基本一致;在进行两者之间的相关性研究时发现,相关系数R2并不高,仅为0.24。该研究还建立了平均粒径(D_A)、中值粒径(D₅₀)与b_bp的关系,得出D_A与b_bp呈线性关系,受季节及水体颗粒构成的影响,夏季,水体颗粒物以小颗粒为主,两者之间的相关性高于秋季,两个季节的R2分别为0.7和0.3;同时得出当水体以小颗粒为主时,b_bp随D_A增大而增大,以大颗粒为主的时,b_bp随D_A增大而减小。D₅₀与b_bp的关系则不同,两者之间呈现非常好的幂指数关系,在同一季节里,b_bp均随着D₅₀的增大而减小,即水体中颗粒物粒径越小,其后向散射系数越大,夏季和秋季两者之间的相关系数分别为0.66和0.5;并且发现如果不分季节差异,现场水体颗粒物的粒径构成对b_bp的影响很难确定。     

鄱阳湖高浑浊水体悬浮颗粒物粒径分布及其对遥感反演的影响

悬浮颗粒物粒径分布特征为水环境结构与功能研究提供了重要信息,但目前针对内陆湖泊的研究还很少。依据2008年—2011年鄱阳湖丰枯水期实测数据,对悬浮颗粒物粒径分布的时空特征及光学特性进行了研究。鄱阳湖悬浮颗粒物粒径具有季节性变化特点：枯水期南部湖区颗粒物粒径大于北部湖区,而丰水期南北部湖区差异不大。同时,悬浮颗粒物粒径分布对水体吸收系数、衰减系数和散射系数都有影响。鄱阳湖水体总颗粒物吸收系数北部观测值高于南部;颗粒物中值粒径与总颗粒物比吸收系数呈负相关关系,这可能是由浑浊水体中存在的矿物颗粒物打包效应引起。鄱阳湖水体总颗粒物衰减系数和散射系数的时空分布规律相似：枯水期具有明显的区域性差异而丰水期区域性差异不大。遥感反射率、总颗粒物散射系数光谱斜率以及颗粒物粒径分布斜率之间的函数关系为遥感反射率表征粒径分布情况以及定量分析悬浮颗粒物粒径分布特征对遥感反射率的影响提供了依据。悬浮颗粒物粒径分布、颗粒物后向散射概率与颗粒物复折射率密切相关,可以反映鄱阳湖水体悬浮颗粒物组分信息。     

Determination of Particle Size Distribution in Fluids using photon correlation spectroscopy

Photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) has been applied to various systems of particles suspended in a fluid. Computer simulations were used to analyse CONTIN, a program for the numerical inversion of the experimental data. Measurements were performed on a spectrometer equipped with a digital correlator. Various suspensions of polysterene latex spheres differing both in size and size distribution were prepared in double distilled water. Further some samples provided by an external institution without prior specification were analysed. Diffusivity measurements on submicron DES (di-2-ethylhexyl sebacate) particles in nitrogen were also performed. The results obtained demonstrate the strengths and the limitations of PCS as a method of determining particle size distributions in particle fluid systems.     

圆截面直流道中微粒黏弹性聚焦机理研究

微粒黏弹性聚焦技术近年来受到了广泛的研究重视, 但影响粒子聚焦特性的关键参数调控机理仍不清楚. 基于此目的, 本文量化研究了圆截面直流道中非牛顿流体诱导微粒黏弹性聚焦的行为, 给出了流速和流道长度对粒子聚焦特性的调控机理. 具体而言: 首先, 对比分析不同黏度牛顿流体(水和22 wt%甘油水溶液)和非牛顿流体(8 wt%聚乙烯吡咯烷酮水溶液)中粒子横向迁移行为, 发现非牛顿流体中粒子将在弹性力主导下聚焦至流道中心区域, 而牛顿流体中粒子则在惯性升力主导下迁移形成Segré-Silberberg圆环. 其次, 量化分析粒子尺寸和驱动流速对黏弹性聚焦效果的影响, 发现随着流速的增加, 粒子聚焦效果逐渐变好并最终趋于稳定, 且大粒子较小粒子具有更好的聚焦效果. 最后, 研究粒子沿流道长度的动态聚焦过程, 推导并验证了粒子聚焦所需安全流道长度的数学模型, 发现大粒子聚焦所需安全流道长度显著短于小粒子. 上述研究结果对于提升粒子黏弹性聚焦机理和过程的理解, 实现微粒聚焦特性的灵活控制具有非常重要的意义.     

鄱阳湖水体悬浮颗粒物散射光谱分解方法研究

内陆水体复杂性为水体悬浮颗粒物散射光谱分解带来难题,也制约着水色遥感理论算法的发展。以2009年鄱阳湖秋季观测数据为基础,提出一种二元简化主轴(ranged major axis,RMA)方法的水体悬浮颗粒物散射光谱分解模型,对鄱阳湖水体中悬浮无机颗粒物与有机颗粒物的散射光谱进行了提取研究。结果表明采用RMA方法建立的悬浮颗粒物散射光谱分解模型在鄱阳湖具有很好的分离效果,在高浑浊水体区域总悬浮颗粒物散射系数预测误差在15%以内,与现有方法相比具有明显优势。分解结果显示鄱阳湖悬浮颗粒物散射主要来自以伊利石/蒙脱石为主要成分的无机颗粒物,RMA方法能够反映占主导地位悬浮颗粒物的散射特性,可以为高浑浊水体散射模型与水色遥感反演算法的研究提供重要依据。     

Improving dispersion of nanometer-size diamond particles by acoustic cavitation

A novel acoustic-dispersion method for fine diamond particles was developed. Two samples of nanometer-sized diamond particles were used. They had primary particle sizes of 5 nm (ND5) and 150 nm (ND150). Disaggregation of agglomerated particles using ultrasound and surface modification of ND5 and ND150 were investigated. The ND5 and ND150 particles aggregated to secondary particles, having sizes on the order of micrometers. The surfaces of ND5 and ND150 particle were modified due to chemical reactions and the particles were disaggregated by acoustic cavitation. The ND5 particles were disaggregated to give an average particle size of about 100 nm by ultrasound exposure with average acoustic intensities higher than 800 W/m(2). The agglomerated ND150 particles with size of 15 microm were disaggregated to reach an average particle size of about 300 nm by ultrasound exposure with an average acoustic intensity higher than 2000 W/m(2). The surfaces of ND5 and ND150 particles were found to be modified with hydroxyl groups resulting from acoustic cavitation. This could lead to a well dispersed solution of nanometer-sized diamond particles in water.     

Numerical study on trapping and guiding of nanoparticles in a flow using scattering field of laser light

Optical trapping and guiding using laser have been proven to be useful for non-contact and non-invasive manipulation of small objects such as biological cells, organelles within cells, and dielectric particles. We have numerically investigated so far the motion of a Brownian particle suspended in still water under the illumination of a speckle pattern generated by the interference of coherent light scattered by a rough object. In the present study, we investigate numerically the motion of a particle in a water flow under the illumination of a speckle pattern that is at rest or in motion. Trajectory of the particle is simulated in relation with its size, flow velocity, maximum irradiance, and moving velocity of the speckle pattern to confirm the feasibility of the present method for performing optical trapping and guiding of the particle in the flow.     

Nanoparticle Microreactor: Application to Synthesis Of Titania by Thermal Decomposition of Titanium Tetraisopropoxide

The nanoparticle microreactor (NPMR) is a new concept that we have introduced to describe a very small-scale system capable of converting an aerosol precursor to solid particles. The liquid precursor of about 1 µl is injected by a syringe through a septum into a tubular evaporator of 1.0 cm³ in volume with stopcocks at both ends. The evaporator has been preheated by a heating tape to a temperature sufficiently high for vaporization to occur in half a minute. By opening the stopcocks, the vaporized precursor is transported by a carrier gas stream into a quartz tube which is mounted along the axis of a tubular furnace. The nanoparticle aggregates produced in the reactor are sampled by deposition on an electron micrograph grid at the reactor exit. The NPMR was applied first to the synthesis of TiO₂ particles by thermal decomposition of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP) in a nitrogen carrier gas, with TTIP concentrations varying from 1.0 to 7.0 mol% or 2.35×10^–6 to 1.65×10^–5 in TiO₂ volume loading, and decomposition temperatures from 300°C to 1000°C. Studies were made with a 2 mm reaction tube and a 4 mm tube with sheath gas. With the 2 mm tube, a considerable fraction of the TTIP precursor was consumed at the wall by surface reaction, resulting in very small particles. With the 4 mm tube, the primary particle size was comparable to that reported in the literature for steady flow experiments using a 22.2 mm tube. Primary particle sizes ranged from 200 to 400 nm. Depending on TTIP concentration and reactor temperature, the particles exhibited a bimodal size distribution, probably due to a two-stage nucleation. A fourfold increase in the gas flow rate had little effect on particle size, indicating that particle growth ended early, within one-fourth the tube length. Residence time in the reactor was between 0.35 and 1.4 s, and total run time about 1 min. The NPMR has potential for rapid assembly of large databases and is adaptable to combinatorial discovery of nanoparticles with novel properties. Design requirements for an ideal aerosol microreactor are discussed briefly.     

驻波声场中单分散细颗粒的相互作用特性

利用外加声场促进悬浮在气相中的细颗粒发生相互作用,进而引起颗粒的碰撞和凝并,使得颗粒平均粒径增大、数目浓度降低,是控制细颗粒排放的重要技术途径.为探究驻波声场中单分散细颗粒的相互作用,建立包含曳力、重力、声尾流效应的颗粒相互作用模型,采用四阶经典龙格-库塔算法和二阶隐式亚当斯插值算法对模型进行求解.将数值模拟得到的颗粒声波夹带速度和相互作用过程与相应的解析解和实验结果进行对比,验证模型的准确性.进而研究颗粒初始条件和直径对相互作用特性的影响.结果表明,初始时刻颗粒中心连线越接近声波波动方向、颗粒位置越接近波腹点,颗粒间的声尾流效应就越强,颗粒发生碰撞所需要的时间就越短.研究还发现,颗粒直径对颗粒相互作用的影响取决于初始时刻颗粒中心连线偏离声波波动方向的程度.当偏离较小时,颗粒直径越大,颗粒发生碰撞所需要的时间越短;当偏离很大时,直径较小的颗粒能够发生碰撞,而直径较大的颗粒则无法发生碰撞.     

Analysis on plasma chemistry and particle growth in corona discharge process for NO/sub x/ removal using discrete-sectional method

The particle formation and growth combined with plasma chemistry in the pulsed corona discharge process (PCDP) to remove NO/sub x/ were analyzed by the discrete-sectional model. In the PCDP, most of the NO is converted into NO/sub 2/ and, later, into HNO/sub 3/ which reacts with NH/sub 3/ to form the NH/sub 4/NO/sub 3/ particle. In the beginning of the reactor, we have the high concentration of small size particles and, later, the particle size distribution in the reactor becomes bimodal with the large size and small size particles and, finally, becomes monodisperse with the large size particles. As the average electron concentration increases, it takes a shorter reactor length to remove the NO/sub x/. As the initial NO and H/sub 2/O concentrations decrease, the NH/sub 3/ is consumed more slowly to form the ammonium nitrates particles. As the averaged electron concentration and initial H/sub 2/O concentration increase, the large size particles grow more quickly and the particle size distribution becomes bimodal earlier. As the initial NO and NH/sub 3/ concentrations increase, the diameter of large size particles becomes larger by the faster coagulation between particles. The predicted NO/sub x/ conversion and particle size distribution were in close agreements with the published experimental results at the averaged electron concentration of 2/spl times/10/sup 5/ cm/sup -3/ in this study.     

Electrophoretic mobility without charge driven by polarisation of the nanoparticle–water interface

Polarisation of the interface, spontaneously occurring when water is in contact with hydrophobic solutes or air, couples with the uniform external field to produce a non-zero force acting on a suspended particle. This force exists even in the absence of a net particle charge, and its direction is affected by the first-order, dipolar and the second-order, qudrupolar orientational order parameters of the interfacial water. The quadrupolar polarisation gives rise to an effectively negative charge. The corresponding surface charge density is inversely proportional to the area of the shear surface. As a result, the overall contribution from the quadrupolar polarisation to the particle mobility becomes negligible compared to experimentally reported values for particles exceeding a few nanometres in size. In contrast, the contribution of the dipolar order of the interface to the effective surface charge scales inversely with the particle size and dominates the zero-charge mobility of submicron particles. The corresponding electrokinetic charge is determined by the preferential orientation of interfacial dipoles relative to the surface normal.     

超声波降解溴苯:操作参数与环境因素的影响

本文考察了用超声波降解水中溴苯的动力学与脱卤效应,并研究了重要的操作参数如强度与饱和气体,以及环境干扰因素如悬浮物、地表水其他杂质的影响。结果表明,超声波可以有效地处理溴苯,在20kHz,7.5W／cm2下一级反应常数达0.044／min,脱卤效率达58％。本研究范围内,声强度越高,反应越快。氧气和氩气下降解速率高于空气下。超声降解不受地表水中杂质、纳米级微粒、无机颗粒的影响,但有机悬浮物能在一定程度上干扰溴苯的超声降解。     

Particle Size Characterization of an Extra Fine Milled Product

The present research aims to characterize the particle size distribution of sub micron particles suspended in a liquid. The particles milled are an organic poorly water soluble crystalline product. To characterize the size of these particles, different techniques have been tested: imaging techniques (SEM, CryoTEM), static light scattering techniques, dynamic light scattering techniques, centrifugation and flow field flow fractionation. The results indicate that the studied milled particles have a primary particle size close to 180nm and there is strong evidence of larger particles which are very likely aggregates. This is clearly seen from the Cryo TEM results. All the above mentioned techniques should in principle be able to measure samples of dispersion containing particles of ca 180 nm but several are disturbed by the presence of large aggregates. It is difficult to estimate the amount of aggregate present, but most of the time one is interested in what the primary particle size distribution is. It is clear that no single piece of equipment is capable of exactly determining the particle size distribution of our samples, but the static light scattering with low shear on mixing does give a good representation of what is seen with the image analysis by cryo TEM.     

Ignition of single coal particle in a hot furnace under normal- and micro-gravity condition

An experimental study on ignition and combustion of single particles was conducted at normal gravity (1-g) and microgravity (μ-g) for three high volatile coals with initial diameter of 1.5 and 2.0 mm, respectively. The non-intrusive twin-color pyrometry method was used to retrieve the surface temperature of the coal particle through processing the images taken by a color CCD camera. At the same time, a mathematical model considering thermal conduction inside the coal particle was developed to simulate the ignition process.Both experiments and modeling found that ignition occurred homogeneously at the beginning and then heterogeneously for the testing coal particles burning at μ-g. Experimental results confirmed that ignition temperature decreased with increasing volatile content and increasing particle size. However, contradicted to previous studies, this study found that for a given coal with certain particle size, ignition temperature was about 50–80 K lower at μ-g than that at 1-g.The model predictions agreed well with the μ-g experimental data on ignition temperature. The criterion that the temperature gradient in the space away from the particle surface equaled to zero was validated to determine the commence of homogeneous ignition. Thermal conduction inside the particle could have a noticeable effect for determining the ignition temperature. With the consideration of thermal conduction, the critical size for the phase transient from homogeneous to heterogeneous is about 700 μm at ambient temperature 1500 K and oxygen concentration 0.23.     

油中悬浮粒子激光多普勒测速瞬时速度的分析

二维频移激光多普勒测量油中悬浮粒子速度时,根据悬浮粒子通过针孔光阑时存在的四种不同情况,对原有激光多普勒测量悬浮粒子瞬时速度的方法进行了改进,提出一种悬浮粒子瞬时速度分析处理方法,利用该方法,对水平方管内的油中悬浮粒子的瞬时速度进行了测量分析。结果表明:改进方法获取的悬浮粒子瞬时速度的稳定性较好,能够表征在一组粒子通过激光多普勒的针孔光阑的时间段内粒子组随着时间的变化趋势,提高了频移激光多普勒采样数据的利用效率,有利于进一步准确表征悬浮粒子在油液中二维瞬时速度的分布特征和运动轨迹,为激光多普勒实验测量中悬浮粒子瞬时速度的表征提供理论支撑。     

Measurement of radiative gas and particle emissions in biomass flames

Radiation is the dominant mode of heat transfer near the burner of coal and biomass-fired boilers. Predicting and measuring heat transfer is critical to the design and operation of new boiler concepts. The individual contributions of gas and particle phases are dependent on gas and particle concentration, particle size, and gas and particle temperature which vary with location relative to the flame. A method for measuring the contributions of both gas and particle radiation capable of being applied in harsh high temperature and pressure environments has been demonstrated using emission from particles and water vapor using an optical fiber probe transmitting a signal to a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. The method was demonstrated in four environments of varying gas and particle loading using natural gas and pulverized wood flames in a down-fired 130?kW_th cylindrical reactor. The method generates a gas and particle temperature, gas concentrations (H₂O and CO₂), total gas and particle intensities, and gas and particle total effective emissivity from line-of-sight emission measurements. For the conditions measured, downstream of the luminous flame zone, water vapor and CO₂ radiation were the dominant modes of heat transfer (effective emissivity 0.13–0.19) with particles making a minor contribution (effective emissivity 0.01–0.02). Within a lean natural gas flame, soot emission was low (effective emissivity 0.02) compared to gas (0.14) but within a luminous flame of burning wood particles (500?µm mean diameter) the particles (soot and burning wood) produced a higher effective emissivity (0.17) than the gas (0.12). The measurement technique was therefore found to be effective for several types of combustion environments.     

纯ZrO_2纳米粒子结构的拉曼光谱研究

本文对粒径在５８～１０ｎｍ范围内不同粒度的纯ＺｒＯ＿２粒子进行了拉曼散射光谱研究。结果表明，粒子的点阵结构受表面效应的影响，粒径的减小，粒子表面层结构严重畸变，但仍是有序的结构。同时，表面效应将进一步引起ＺｒＯ＿２粒子点阵结构变化，在室温下，使单斜相的粒子自发地转变为四方相结构。ＺｒＯ＿２粒子由单斜相向四方相转变的临界直径为１５ｎｍ。     

An Experimental Investigation of Forced Convection Heat Transfer from a Coiled Heat Exchanger Embedded in a Packed Bed

Forced convection heat transfer from a helically coiled heat exchanger embedded in a packed bed of spherical glass particles was investigated experimentally. With dry air at ambient pressure and temperature as a flowing fluid, the effect of particle size, helically coiled heat exchanger diameter, and position was studied for a wide range of Reynolds numbers. It was found that the particle diameter, the helically coiled heat exchanger diameter and position, and the air velocity are of great influence on the convective heat transfer between the helically coiled heat exchanger and air. Results indicated that the heat transfer coefficient increased with increasing the air velocity, increasing helically coiled heat exchanger diameter, and decreasing the particle size. The highest heat transfer coefficients were obtained with the packed-bed particle size of 16 mm and heat exchanger coil diameter of 9.525 mm (1/4 inch) at a Reynolds number range of 1,536 to 4,134 for all used coil positions in the conducted tests. A dimensionless correlation was proposed for Nusselt number as a function of Reynolds number, particle size, coil size, and coil position.