Particle clustering evidence

The underlying questions with these clusters are What is the mechanism for their existence Where are the clusters formed and How do clusters affect entrainment rates Based on evidence from pilot and commercial scale plants along with highspeed video of a cold-flow fluidized bed, the mechanism of particle clustering in and above fluidized beds and its effect on entrainment were examined. 

Regardless of these short-ranged cohesive forces, the formation and stability of particle clusters in a fluidized bed appears to be a multistep process [27], Some shear (as in two particles grazing each other) may be needed to promote collisional cooling, but less than that perhaps in the dense emnlsion of a fluidized bed. Perhaps the lower particle concentration in a babble provides the environment where clnster stability is promoted for the smaller particles. Collisional stresses in the emnlsion may be too high and the cohesive forces may be too low to have long-lasting particle clusters. Indeed, the only evidence of particle clnsters in fluidized beds offered here is that the clusters are located near the bubbles. 

Nauchitel and Pertsin have studied the melting properties of 13-, 19-, and 55-particle Lennard-Jones clusters.Questioning the validity of results obtained from free-volume simulations of such systems, they have used hard-sphere boundaries to constrain their clusters to finite volumes. The results of Nauchitel and Pertsin are most interesting for the 55-particle cluster. For certain ranges of temperature and mean density, structural evidence for surface melting was obtained projections of the cluster s coordinates, and radial density distribution functions, like those given in Fig. 17, characterize the cluster as a 13-particle icosahedral core surrounded by a fluidlike shell. However, dynamic calculations like those described for other clusters in the previous section have yet to be obtained to determine how fluidlike these outer atoms really are. 

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Dudowicz, J., Freed, K.F., Douglas, J. Lattice model of living polymerization. 111. Evidence for particle clustering from phase separation properties and "rounding" of the dynamical clustering transition. J. Chem. Phys. 2000,113,434. 

Knockout reactions, such as (p,a), and (e,e a) in even N= Z (alpha particle) nuclei are also especially important as they provide evidence for alpha particle clustering in nuclei. At low energies, such reactions, for example, F(p,a) and Si(y,a) Mg, which reduce the mass of... 

If we do so and see therefore the colloidal particles as constant data in our problem, we remark that evidently a number of colloidal particles embedded in a liquid, may occur in two different states the stable state, in which the particles are more or less evenly distributed and the flocculated one in which the particles form large and difficultly reversible clusters Evidently in the flocculated state the particles attract each other, and in the stable state there is a repulsion between them ... 

Flocculation studies, considering the small-strain mechanical response of the uncross-hnked composites during heat treatment (annealing), demonstrate that a relative movement of the particles takes place that depends on particle size, molar mass of the polymer, as well as polymer-filler and filler-filler interactions (Figure 22.2). This provides strong experimental evidence for a kinetic cluster-cluster aggregation (CCA) mechanism of filler particles in the mbber matrix to form a filler network [24]. 

A comment regarding the dispersion of the Ru-Rh/Si02 and the Ru-Ir/Si02 is in order. For the case of the supported Pt-Ru catalysts. Increases in dispersion as a result of clustering were very large ( ). This effect was particularly noticeable for bimetallic particles which conform to the cherry model. Evidently, the formation of an inner core enriched in one of the two metals, followed by an outer layer enriched in the other metal, inhibits further crystal growth. For the alumina-supported Pt-Ru bimetallic clusters, the effect, although present, is considerably smaller. 

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