{"title":"Narrowing the particle size distribution of powder coatings via a reformed classifying cyclone: Improved flowability and film qualities","authors":"Junqing Xie , Jing Fu , Yuanyuan Shao , Haiping Zhang , Hui Zhang , Jesse Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, a new design of classifying cyclone separator with secondary air inlet and air guider (SAG type) was proposed to narrow the particle size distribution (PSD). CFD simulation reveals that only adding a secondary air inlet (SA type) at the bottom of the cyclone will create a strong updraft. After adding an air guider, the rotating air enhances the strength of the outer vortex, which is conducive to the particle collection. The experiment results also verify these findings. SA cyclone separator effectively narrows the PSD, but the particle collection efficiency is greatly reduced. In contrast, SAG cyclone separator can decrease the PSD while maintaining a high particle collection efficiency. In addition, it is also found that the collection efficiency of particles decreases with the increase of the opening size of the secondary air inlet, but the SAG cyclone separator is less sensitive to this, making it more controllable in practical applications. To further assess the impact of cyclone modification on coating powder and film properties, the powder coatings with wide PSD and narrow PSD were prepared by original cyclone and SAG cyclone, respectively. It was found that reducing the span of the powder by modifying the cyclone can effectively improve the flowability (angle of repose (AOR), avalanche angle (AVA) and rotating bed expansion rate (RBER)) and film properties (distinctness of image (DOI) and surface flatness) of the particles. This study provides guidance for narrowing the PSD and improving the flowability and film properties of powder coatings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 67-77"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.005
Ritwik Maiti , Gargi Das , Prasanta Kumar Das
{"title":"Bubbling phenomena during granular drainage from an inclined closed-top quasi-two-dimensional conduit","authors":"Ritwik Maiti , Gargi Das , Prasanta Kumar Das","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study investigates gravity-driven granular drainage from a closed-top quasi-two-dimensional rectangular conduit. Experiments over a wide range of conduit inclination with respect to the horizontal (<em>θ</em>) reveal drainage to occur by “avalanche flow”. Beyond a conduit tilt (<em>θ</em> > <em>θ</em><sub><em>b</em></sub>), avalanching is accompanied by bubbling of the interstitial air, which hastens the rate of drainage. However, on further increase in conduit tilt towards the vertical (<em>θ</em> > <em>θ</em><sub><em>m</em></sub>), the rate of drainage slows down as avalanche flow ceases while bubbling continues. Flow visualization experiments followed by image analysis, spatio-temporal plots, and Digital Particle Image velocimetry (DPIV) measurements provide a detailed qualitative description and quantitative measurements in the two drainage regimes, viz, avalanching with bubbling and drainage after termination of avalanche flow. Based on experimental observations, phenomenological models are proposed for the prediction of critical conduit inclination for the inception of bubbling (<em>θ</em><sub><em>b</em></sub>), and termination of avalanche flow (<em>θ</em><sub><em>m</em></sub>), as well as the bubble rise velocity in the two drainage regimes, i.e. for <em>θ</em><sub><em>b</em></sub>≤ <em>θ</em> ≤<em>θ</em><sub><em>m</em></sub> and <em>θ</em><sub><em>m</em></sub>≤ <em>θ</em> ≤ 90°.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 29-40"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144170517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.011
Zhengda Yang , Han Wei , Hao Zheng , Fayang Hu , Ye Jiang , Lingyu Shao
{"title":"Competitive effects between heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation during particle condensation growth process","authors":"Zhengda Yang , Han Wei , Hao Zheng , Fayang Hu , Ye Jiang , Lingyu Shao","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The principal method for improving the removal efficiency of fine particles emitted from coal-fired power plants involves the application of water vapor phase change pretreatment technology. This study utilizes molecular dynamic (MD) simulation to examine the heterogeneous nucleation process between fine particles and H<sub>2</sub>O under conditions of multi-gas composition. Results showed that the heterogeneous nucleation and the homogeneous nucleation process of H<sub>2</sub>O occur concurrently, with both processes engaged in a competitive relationship. The nucleation process of H<sub>2</sub>O on particles is characterized by the formation of specific sites. In these regions, H<sub>2</sub>O interacts strongly with the O atoms on the particle surface through hydrogen bonding, leading to preferential condensation in the vicinity of these sites. The influence of temperature on particle growth primarily involves interaction and self-diffusion processes of H<sub>2</sub>O. As the temperature decreases, the size of particles initially increases and then decreases, reaching a maximum at 323 K. In contrast to the effects of temperature change, the influence of H<sub>2</sub>O content on fine particulate growth is primarily characterized by the competition between homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation of H<sub>2</sub>O molecules. These findings, including the nucleation characteristics of fine particles and the influence mechanism of gas temperature and humidity, strengthen the theoretical system of water vapor phase change technology to promote the removal of fine particles from coal-fired flue gas, and provide theoretical support for subsequent process optimization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 78-87"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-17DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.006
Lin Jiang , Ming Gong , Rui Lan , Yu Tian , Rongzheng Liu , Bing Liu , Youlin Shao , Malin Liu
{"title":"A novel heterogeneous binding model for simulating nuclear fuel particle FB-CVD coating process based on CFD-DEM concept","authors":"Lin Jiang , Ming Gong , Rui Lan , Yu Tian , Rongzheng Liu , Bing Liu , Youlin Shao , Malin Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Preparation of coated fuel particles using the fluidized bed-chemical vapor deposition (FB-CVD) process is a key step in the production of nuclear fuel particles for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs). The process of applying four coating layers on high-density uranium dioxide kernel particles results in an increase in particle size and a decrease in density. Most existing coating models at the single-particle scale assume homogeneous coating under thin layer conditions, which makes it difficult to accurately describe the actual evolution process of coated particles preparation. Therefore, this study proposed a particle-binding-type heterogeneous layer (PBT-HL) model combined the binding concept with the CFD-DEM method, which accounts for dynamic changes in the density of coated particles. Then model validation in terms of gas-solid interaction and mass transfer, and coating condition parameter analysis were given at first. The results showed that changes in operational parameters such as the layer density, loading capacity, and inlet gas velocity can affect the spouted fluidization state, further influencing the deposition rate and coating effectiveness. These findings also suggested that the heterogeneous coating model in binding configuration can be further developed to study the anisotropy of single-particle layer thickness quantitatively. In summary, the variable-density PBT-HL model approximates the actual coating layer preparation process more closely, aiding in the acquisition of coating process information and guiding the optimization of coating techniques. The proposed heterogeneous coating model also holds potential for further development to characterize the intra-particle uniformity and the conformality feature of FB-CVD technique in the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144155119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-17DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.007
Rasoul Fatahi, Hadi Abdollahi, Mohammad Noaparast, Mehdi Hadizadeh
{"title":"An operational variable of cement vertical roller mill modeling: Forecast process control variables by neural network RBF-MLP-GMDH","authors":"Rasoul Fatahi, Hadi Abdollahi, Mohammad Noaparast, Mehdi Hadizadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vertical Roller Mills)VRM (are highly favored in cement due to low power consumption, increased capacity, and process simplification. The VRM's grinding process involves a variety of operating parameters, including process-controlled and process-manipulated variables. Therefore, understanding interactions between operation variables and power consumption would be essential for sustainable ground material transportation during the ventilation process in the mill. A few investigations were conducted to model the ventilation and power consumption of VRMs. Using an Artificial Neural Network)ANN) model on large-scale industry problems could help understand how VRM variables interact and encourage controlling ventilation for long-term operations and altered production. The deficiencies were resolved by developing the ANN models such as Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP), Radial Basis Function (RBF), and Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) for modeling differential pressure and mill fan power draw of a VRM grinding circuit to address the effectiveness of operating variables. The MLP model had the highest level of prediction accuracy for modeling, with a coefficient of predictive accuracy (R-value) of 0.96. The MLP assessment indicated that the most influential controlled variables were the feed rate, working pressure, water injection, and mill fan damper on the differential pressure and mill fan power. These results are consistent with the actual operating state of the VRM grinding circuit. Such an ANN model for a VRM can train operators, control the process, save time and energy, reduce laboratory work and scale issues, and enhance the operation's sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 55-66"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144170520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-17DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.004
Yu Kang , Wei Zhang , Yuming Zhang , Jiazhou Li , Zhewen Chen
{"title":"A numerical study on the mixing behavior of spherical and non-spherical particles in a spouted fluidized bed","authors":"Yu Kang , Wei Zhang , Yuming Zhang , Jiazhou Li , Zhewen Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Biomass energy is considered a promising renewable energy resource to cope with global carbon neutrality goals and the ongoing energy crisis. However, the irregular shapes and varying sizes of milled biomass particles hinder their effective usage in biomass reactors for energy generation. Previous research on non-spherical particles has mainly focused on single-particle systems, with limited studies on binary mixtures. This study employs CFD-DEM method with superquadric shape representation to investigate the mixing behavior of spherical and cylindrical particles in a spouted fluidized bed. The results show that increasing the aspect ratio of cylindrical particles increases accumulation in dead zones. A higher proportion of cylindrical particles significantly reduces spouting height and makes the V-shaped dead zone more evidence. During spouting from a static state, cylindrical particles exhibit notable changes in pitch angle, transitioning from horizontal to vertical orientations, with these trends becoming more pronounced at higher aspect ratios. These findings provide insight into the mixing behavior of binary particle system of spherical and non-spherical particles, and offer a guidance for the reactor operation with these particle types.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 88-103"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-16DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.003
Fenfen Wang , Chenglin E , Chunxi Lu
{"title":"Solids hydrodynamics in a novel MTO high-speed loop reactor and model prediction for reaction","authors":"Fenfen Wang , Chenglin E , Chunxi Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Methanol to olefins (MTO) plays a crucial role to transform non-oil resources into light olefins. Combined with the kinetics of MTO reaction process, a high-speed loop reactor (HSLR) is explored. The solids hydrodynamics including the uniformity distribution, fluidization quality, backmixing and carryover are systematically analyzed in detail. Moreover, the gas-solid hydrodynamics in the HSLR are coupled with the MTO reaction kinetics, and the methanol conversion and yields of light olefins are both predicted and compared in the HSLR and free fluidized bed (FFB). The results demonstrate that the particles distribute more uniform in the different regions of HSLR than that of FFB and the overall fluidization quality of particles is high in the HSLR. The overall non-uniformity index in the HSLR varies from 0.1 to 0.18 kPa and that in the FFB changes from 0.2 to 0.35 kPa when the superficial gas velocity is 1.03 m/s and the solids circulation flux equals to 90.9 kg/(m<sup>2</sup> s). Meanwhile, the ratio of solids backmixing and carryover in the HSLR are both lower than that in the FFB. Finally, the hydrodynamics in HSLR are coupled with the five-lumped reaction kinetics for MTO. Based on the coupled model, it is predicted that both the methanol conversion and the yields of light olefins in the HSLR are higher than that in the FFB. The maximum difference between the methanol conversion and the light olefin yields in the HSLR and that in the FFB is 6.2 % and 0.000803 mol/L when the superficial gas velocity <em>U</em><sub>g</sub> is 0.87 m/s, which demonstrates the superiority of HSLR for MTO reaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 301-314"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144338338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.04.020
Arif Eren Özdemir , Can Akıcı , Murat Köksal , Görkem Külah
{"title":"Experimental investigation of directly irradiated conical spouted bed thermal receivers","authors":"Arif Eren Özdemir , Can Akıcı , Murat Köksal , Görkem Külah","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.04.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.04.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One of the emerging applications of spouted beds is their use as thermal receivers in CSP systems, offering significant advantages such as high heat transfer rates and uniform temperature distribution. However, experimental studies on directly irradiated spouted beds remain limited in the literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the thermal performance of a directly irradiated spouted bed receiver using CarboHSP and olivine particles. Experiments were conducted in a 0.15 m ID spouted bed with a 60° conical angle. Hydrodynamic experiments were first performed to understand the gas-solid dynamics and establish a foundation for subsequent thermal studies. The solar radiation was simulated by a 2 kWe metal halide lamp. Temperature profiles influenced by particle size, spouting velocity, and particle type were analyzed, and charge and discharge efficiencies were determined. Higher temperatures are obtained as the particle size and spouting gas velocity are reduced. The results also show that olivine particles are a cost-effective alternative for spouted bed thermal receivers, offering thermal performance comparable to CarboHSP particles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 18-28"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144155120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ParticuologyPub Date : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.001
Xuejun Ma , Minmin Zhou , Chunjing Liu , Fei Zheng , Jianyi Lu
{"title":"Particle size distribution of submicron particulate matter from coal/biomass combustion under different conditions: A comparison of modeling and experimentation","authors":"Xuejun Ma , Minmin Zhou , Chunjing Liu , Fei Zheng , Jianyi Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coal/biomass combustion is a major source of submicron particulate matter (sub-PM), with mineral substances in the fuels playing a key role in the formation and growth of these particles. In this study, the temporal evolution of sub-PM is predicted by simulating coal/biomass combustion under different temperature, atmosphere, species, particle size and density conditions by using nucleation, condensation, coagulation and deposition sub-models. Compared with experimental data, the results show that the amount of sub-PM generated from pulverized coal combustion increases with higher temperatures and oxygen concentrations, and lignin (LN) produces the highest emission of sub-PM among different biomass types. The peak particle size distribution (PSD) of sub-PM across different experimental conditions is mainly centered around 0.1–0.2 μm. The values of relative error are below 20% and even below 10%, indicating that the model is in good agreement with the experimental data. Subsequently, the effects of pulverized coal size and coal density on the PSD of sub-PM are predictively simulated by the verified model, the findings indicate that both of the peak PSD are among 0.08–0.23 μm, the emission amount of sub-PM negatively relate to coal size and coal density.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"102 ","pages":"Pages 240-250"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nucleation and growth of MOF-based composite materials for electrochemical energy storage","authors":"Shunyu Gu , Huijie Zhou , Mengyao Zhang , Chenfei Zhou , Wanchang Feng , Yuansheng Jiang , Huan Pang","doi":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.04.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.partic.2025.04.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing studies have systematically summarized the synthesis methods, performance optimization strategies, and uses of MOF composites in areas such as supercapacitors, batteries, and electrocatalysis. Unlike existing literature, this review delves into the synthesis processes of MOF composites from the perspective of nucleation mechanisms, with an emphasis on the effects of induced nucleation (including dynamic and in situ nucleation) and seed-mediated growth (utilizing MOFs or functional materials as seeds) on material structures and properties. Induced nucleation influences crystal growth by modulating parameters such as temperature and solvents, while in situ nucleation controls the process through the introduction of specific precursors. Seed-mediated growth, on the other hand, involves the growth of crystals on pre-existing seeds supported on substrates. By leveraging the significant advantages of MOF composites, such as enhanced conductivity, stability, and performance, these materials have been shown to improve the functionality of supercapacitors and batteries. Additionally, they exhibit excellent catalytic activity in electrocatalysis. In summary, this study not only elucidates the nucleation mechanism-guided preparation methods of MOF-based materials but also uncovers their underlying mechanisms in electrochemical energy storage. It offers fresh perspectives and practical guidance toward the advancement of high-performance electrochemical power storage materials.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":401,"journal":{"name":"Particuology","volume":"102 ","pages":"Pages 216-239"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144088911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}