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© 2023 by the authors.The “excess salt replication process” is a new simple method of fabrication of open-cell metal foam based on the commonly known salt replication method. Porous materials with porosity between 46% and 66% result when the employed alloy is 25% antimonial lead alloy and when it is 58% to 65% zamak 5. These foams are proposed as structured catalysts instead of packed beds in the treatment of wastewater. The local regimes influencing macroscopic air flow behaviour through these foams are delimited and boundaries are analysed in terms of sample length. Most of the experimental tests in this work exhibited a general trend of air flow in ESR foams dominated by the “strong inertia regime”. It was established that the law governing the unidirectional air flow through these foams was the full cubic law. The permeability and inertia coefficient of five samples with a cell diameter between 2.5 and 4.5 mm were calculated, and an empirical correlation was fitted. The irregular cuboid shape of salt grains used in the ESR foam was the origin of the special cell form of ESR foams leading to an anisotropic ordered porous media. This can explain the macroscopic turbulence of air flow because there were many dead zones present in the corner of each cubic cell, thus causing kinetic energy loss starting at earlier regimes.
Author(s): Hassein-Bey AH, Belhadj A-E, Tahraoui H, Toumi S, Sid ANEH, Kebir M, Chebli D, Amrane A, Zhang J, Mouni L
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Water
Year: 2023
Volume: 15
Issue: 7
Print publication date: 01/04/2023
Online publication date: 04/04/2023
Acceptance date: 31/03/2023
Date deposited: 05/05/2023
ISSN (electronic): 2073-4441
Publisher: MDPI
URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/w15071405
DOI: 10.3390/w15071405
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