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Experimental study of a liquid fluidization in a microfluidic channel

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Vladimir Zivkovic

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Abstract

This study reports the first ever experimental study of true micro-fluidization: a liquid-fluidized bed of 30.5 μm micro-particles within a rectangular micro-channel of 400 × 175 μm². The failure to fluidize the micro-particles with water demonstrated the importance of surface forces for micro-fluidization. Use of ethanol instead leads to fluidization that is largely well described by conventional fluidization equations, although higher values of empirical constant (k and n) are obtained for Richardson-Zaki correlation.

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Author(s): Zivkovic V, Biggs MJ, Alwahabi ZT

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: AIChE Journal

Year: 2013

Volume: 59

Issue: 2

Pages: 361-364

Print publication date: 30/11/2012

Date deposited: 09/09/2014

ISSN (print): 0001-1541

ISSN (electronic): 1547-5905

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.13961

DOI: 10.1002/aic.13961

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