{"title":"Influence of surface hydrophobicity and roughness on residual microbubble during the detachment of bubble and solid plane","authors":"Xiaofeng Jiang, Jing Cui, Xiaoying Wang, Zixuan Fu, Jiacheng Bai, Xianliang Meng, Enle Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.ces.2026.125068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.125068","url":null,"abstract":"Bubble-particle detachment is critical to flotation efficiency, and previous studies have clarified the influence of factors such as hydrodynamics and surface properties. However, the phenomenon of residual microbubbles remaining on solid surfaces after detachment is still not well understood. In this study, the effect of surface hydrophobicity and roughness on the residual microbubble as well as three-phase contact line (TPL) during bubble detaching from the solid plane were investigated. It was found that the enhancement of solid surface hydrophobicity leads to an increase in the volume of residual microbubble. Whereas, increasing surface roughness induces a nonlinear variation in the volume of residual microbubble, characterized by an initial increase, followed by a decline, and then a subsequent rise. In addition, a similar trend is observed for the TPL length and dynamical contact angles, both of which increase with enhanced hydrophobicity and exhibit the same nonlinear response to surface roughness. These results are expected to provide new insights into the detachment theory, highlighting the potential role of surface physic-chemical structure in bubble-particle stability.","PeriodicalId":271,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Science","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148884576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep reinforcement learning-driven mesh adaptation for supercritical water fluidized bed simulations","authors":"Haozhe Su, Jie Zhang, Hui Jin, Liejin Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.ces.2026.125053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.125053","url":null,"abstract":"This study develops a reinforcement learning-based adaptive mesh refinement (RL-AMR) framework integrated into a computational fluid dynamics − discrete element method (CFD-DEM) solver to achieve autonomous mesh control in the dense phase region of a supercritical water fluidized bed reactor (SCWFBR). The proposed method reformulates mesh adaptation as an optimal control problem by quantifying the adaptation parameters into a compact vector, which dramatically compresses the action space compared to conventional direct-addressing RL-AMR approaches. This parameterization enables the model to scale efficiently to large computational domains without compromising precision. Using the high-resolution fixed-mesh results as the reference, comparative simulations with heuristic AMR strategies demonstrate that the proposed RL-AMR achieves comparable particle similarity (average 0.748) and superior accuracy in predicting gas-phase products (<ce:italic>R</ce:italic><ce:sup loc=\"post\">2</ce:sup> > 98.8 %), while reducing computational time by nearly 50 %. Analysis of the training dynamics reveals the RL agent’s evolution from random exploration to stable policy optimization, resulting in smoother and more strategic mesh adjustments that minimize numerical instabilities. The scale-up investigation reveals that while a direct zero-shot deployment preserves baseline computational efficiency and global flow statistics, a rapid few-shot calibration successfully restores optimal species predictive accuracy with minimal retraining cost. This work develops a scalable, parameterized RL-AMR framework that overcomes the action-space explosion inherent in existing cell-level RL-AMR methods, establishing a practical and transferable pathway for intelligent mesh control in complex multi-physics systems.","PeriodicalId":271,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Science","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148884581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpretable machine learning for spatial regression of bubble characteristics in a coal and biomass co-gasifier","authors":"Ju Wang,Siyuan Chen,Shiliang Yang,Hua Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ces.2026.125051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.125051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":271,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Science","volume":"46 40 1","pages":"125051"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148895610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mingqiang Chen,Mengyu Cai,Yishuang Wang,Defang Liang,Chang Li,Haosheng Xin,Xiaoyu Zhao,Jiawen Hu,Jun Wang
{"title":"Construction of Lewis acid sites and oxygen vacancy for directed conversion of lignin to guaiacol","authors":"Mingqiang Chen,Mengyu Cai,Yishuang Wang,Defang Liang,Chang Li,Haosheng Xin,Xiaoyu Zhao,Jiawen Hu,Jun Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ces.2026.125088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.125088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":271,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Science","volume":"379 1","pages":"125088"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148895611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low-rank physics-constrained dynamic mode decomposition for data-mechanism fusion in high-dimensional dynamical systems","authors":"Xing Qian, Jiajun Hou, Yuhui Yin, Shengkun Jia, Yiqing Luo, Xigang Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.ces.2026.125056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2026.125056","url":null,"abstract":"To overcome the high online correction cost of full-rank Physics-Constrained Dynamic Mode Decomposition (PCDMD) in high-dimensional dynamical systems, this paper proposes a low-rank PCDMD method. This method reformulates predictive evolution, covariance propagation, and physics-based correction in a unified low-rank space. It introduces a prediction basis and a correction basis to reduce the accuracy loss caused by low-rank approximation. The method is evaluated on mathematical PDE benchmarks and complex cases, including catalytic fixed-bed reactor, lid-driven cavity flow, and flow past a square cylinder. The results show that low-rank PCDMD preserves high prediction accuracy while reducing online cost by more than 20-fold in representative cases. The method remains effective under noisy data, sparse observations, and non-uniform temporal sampling. The proposed method therefore provides a practical route for extending data-mechanism fusion models to complex high-dimensional dynamical systems.","PeriodicalId":271,"journal":{"name":"Chemical Engineering Science","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148884579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}