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Attenuated Periodical Oscillation Characteristics in a Nanoscale Particle-Laden Laminar Flow

Geng, J; Tang, J; Wang, Y; Huang, Z; Jing, D; Guo, L; (2020) Attenuated Periodical Oscillation Characteristics in a Nanoscale Particle-Laden Laminar Flow. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research , 59 (16) pp. 8018-8027. 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c00405. Green open access

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Abstract

Transport properties in a nanoparticle-laden flow are of great importance for their practical use, such as in tubular reactor-based photocatalytic technologies. In our study, an experimental setup based on photocatalytic application was employed to investigate the nanoparticle transport characteristics in a flow reactor. An interesting periodical attenuated oscillation of the particle volume fraction and mean particle size with time was found in the nanoparticle-laden flow. We further analyzed the period of the attenuated oscillation curve by conducting a linear fitting, which shows that the period can be expressed as T = f(Q,L) in which the period is proportional to the length of the test section and inversely proportional to the flow rate. We found that the time 5T is a very important criterion for determining whether the particle suspension has reached the quasi-steady state and whether the nanoparticle has been well suspended. Our work is believed to be valuable, efficient, and effective in the study of transportation of nanoparticles in laminar flow with low energy consumption.

Type: Article
Title: Attenuated Periodical Oscillation Characteristics in a Nanoscale Particle-Laden Laminar Flow
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c00405
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.0c00405
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Technology, Engineering, Chemical, Engineering, SOLAR HYDROGEN-PRODUCTION, FLUIDIZED-BED, PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION, LASER DIFFRACTION, SIZE, SEGREGATION, DISPERSION, REACTOR, SOLIDS, SENSOR
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112320
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