Direct interception

Mechanisms of Filter Retention. In general, filtrative processes operate via three mechanisms inertial impaction, diffusional interception, and direct interception (2). Whereas these mechanisms operate concomitantly, the relative importance and role of each may vary. 

Direct interception refers to a sieve-type mechanism in which contaminants larger than the filter pore size are directly trapped by the filter. This sieve retention mechanism of particle arrest is the mechanism of choice and occurs owing to geometric or spatial restraint. This type of particle arrest is considered to be absolute, that is, it is independent of filtration conditions. 

Scmbbers make use of a combination of the particulate coUection mechanisms Hsted in Table 5. It is difficult to classify scmbbers predominantly by any one mechanism but for some systems, inertial impaction and direct interception predominate. Semrau (153,262,268) proposed a contacting power principle for correlation of dust-scmbber efficiency the efficiency of coUection is proportional to power expended and more energy is required to capture finer particles. This principle is appHcable only when inertial impaction and direct interception are the mechanisms employed. Eurthermore, the correlation is not general because different parameters are obtained for differing emissions coUected by different devices. However, in many wet scmbber situations for constant particle-size distribution, Semrau s power law principle, roughly appHes ... 

This has also commonly heen termed direct interception and in conventional analysis would constitute a physical boundary condition path induced hy action of other forces. By itself it reflects deposition that might result with a hyj)othetical particle having finite size hut no fThis parameter is an alternative to N f, N i, or and is useful as a measure of the interactive effect of one of these on the other two. Schmidt numher. 

The collection technique involves the removal of particles from the air stream. The two principal methods are filtration and impaction. Filtrahon consists of collecting particles on a filter surface by three processes—direct interception, inertial impaction, and diffusion (5). Filtration attempts to remove a very high percentage of the mass and number of particles by these three processes. Any size classification is done by a preclassifier, such as an impactor, before the particle stream reaches the surface of the filter. 

Direct interception occurs when the fluid streamline carrying the particle passes within one-half of a particle diameter of the filter element. Regardless of the particle s size, mass, or inertia, it will be collected if the streamline passes sufficiently close. Inertial impaction occurs when the particle would miss the filter element if it followed the streamline, but its inertia resists the change in direction taken by the gas molecules and it continues in a... 

Direct interception Particle removal from a gas stream by a filter with geometry such that the particulate matter does not deviate from the fluid flow lines. 

Since radiation arriving at a black surface is completely absorbed, no problems arise from multiple reflections. Radiation is emitted from a diffuse surface in all directions and therefore only a proportion of the radiation leaving a surface arrives at any other given surface. This proportion depends on the relative geometry of the surfaces and this may be taken into account by the view factor, shape factor or configuration F, which is normally written as F, for radiation arriving at surface j from surface i. In this way, F,y, which is, of course, completely independent of the surface temperature, is the fraction of radiation leaving i which is directly intercepted by j. 

Direct interception of the initially formed bicyclic oxyallyl zwitterion derived from cyclohexadienones is difficult, due to its facile rearrangement to cyclopropyl ketone. One notable exception is the observation that 4-trichloromethyl-substituted dienone 94 gave solvent adduct 97 when irradiated in methanol, and both 97 and 98 upon irradiation in acidic methanol (Scheme 24)48. It was proposed that 97 arises either from a facile... 

Mathematically expressed, NT = Pf, where NT is the number of particulate transfer units achieved and PT is the total energy expended within the collection device, including gas and liquid pressure drop and thermal and mechanical energy added in atomizers. NT is further defined as NT = In [1/(1 -1 )], where Tj is the overall fractional collection efficiency. This was intended as a universal principle, but the constants and y have been found to be functions of the chemical nature of the system and the design of the control device. Others have pointed out that the principle is applicable only when the primary collection mechanism is impaction and direct interception. Calvert (R-10, R-12) has found that plotting particle cut size versus pressure drop (or power expended) as in Fig. 14-129 is a more suitable way to develop a generalized energy-requirement curve for impaction... 

A further modification106 is achieved by intercepting the allylic radicals with Cu(II) shown in Eq. (82). The 5-carboxypentyl radical may also be directly intercepted by Cu(II) to afford co-hexenoic acid [Eq. (83)]. Also, the ligand transfer oxidation of alkyl radicals by cupric halides may be employed to produce the corresponding co-halo acids, e.g.,... 

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