Particle Liquid bridging

Fig. 5. Estimated characteristic strength of typical biological particles of interest to biotechnology data are based on in-situ measurements of the minimum stresses necessary to cause permanent breakage of particles. For comparison data are shown based on Van der Waals and pendular liquid bridges between two 10-pm particles, 0.01 pm apart...

Capillary forces increase in relationship to the relative humidity (RH) of the ambient air. At greater than 65% RH, fluid condenses in the space between adjacent particles. This leads to liquid bridges causing attractive forces due to the surface tension of the water. 

Critical Binder Liquid/Powder Ratio. When a liquid is mixed into a bulk powder made of fine particles, the liquid distributes itself first into small spaces between particles forming liquid bridges as can be seen in Fig. 12a. For very small amounts of liquid, these bridges are randomly spaced and do not influence the bulk properties of the powder. Upon introduction of larger... 

Figure 22. Pendular liquid bridge between two spherical particles. (From Ennis, etal., Powder Technol., 65 257-272, 1991, with kind permission from Elsevier Science S.A., P.O. Box 564, 1001 Lausanne, Switzerland.)...

Conditions of Coalescence. The outcome of the collision of two binder-covered particles is determined by the ratio of the initial kinetic energy of the system and the energy dissipated in the liquid bridge and in the particles. This can be expressed analytically by the definition of a so called Stokes number, St... 

If the particles are wetted only partially by the fluid (melt), liquid bridges form and capillary forces develop between them. These can be divided into two parts that related to surface tension ... 

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