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Some of the sairqjles was analysed with a Topometrix Discoverer AFM unit. Two examples are shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4, which correspond to respectively non-agglomerated and agglomerated random samples taken at 4e summer shut down of the boiler in 1998. The upper parts of the pictures shows the atomic force micrograph and the lower parts the topography of the sample, The analysed area is 20 20 pm with a 400 400 pixel resolution. 

Kapur and Fuerstenau (K6) have presented a discrete size model for the growth of the agglomerates by the random coalescence mechanism, which invariably predominates in the nuclei and transition growth regions. The basic postulates of their model are that the granules are well mixed and the collision frequency and the probability of coalescence are independent of size. The concentration of the pellets is more or less fixed by the packing... 

Fig. 18. Mean granule volume as a function of the agglomeration time in the random-coalescence mechanism. [From Kapur (K2).]...

Fig. 23. (I) Effect of water content on the growth rate of agglomerates sand granules grown by crushing and layering mechanism [from Capes and Danckwerts (C5)]. (II) Limestone nuclei by random coalescence [from Kapur (K2)]. (Ill) Limestone balls by nonrandom coale-scene [from Kapur (K4)]. (IV) Iron ore pelletized in a disk.[From Kanetkar (K1)].

Over the centuries, many other concepts were proposed to explain the nature of matter— many of them extensions of the Greek concept of an ultimately indivisible and indestructible elementary bit of matter. But it was not until J. J. Thomson proposed his model of the atom, consisting of a sphere with an agglomeration of particles with negative electric charges somehow positioned randomly inside a very small ball of matter, that the modern structure of the atom began to take shape. 

When the fluidized bed consists of non-porous particles, solvent in the feed liquid is evaporated in a well-defined zone close to the spray nozzle and from fhe surface of the bed particles with which it inevitably comes into contact. No permanent gas jet or void exists in this region particle motion is not well ordered and no regular coating of parficles wifh feed solution takes place. The random and intense contact between particles and liquid results in agglomeration. Even if the mass and heat balances for the bed as a whole have been satisfied, both... 

The agglomeration process is a dynamic process where a droplet is created by a two-fluid nozzle, and deposited on the randomly fluidized particle. The binder solvent evaporates, leaving behind the binder. Before all of the solvent is evaporated, other randomized particles form bonds on the wet site. This process is repeated numerous times to produce desired agglomerated product. There are number of process variables that control the agglomeration. Process variables most important to consider are listed as follows ... 

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