EXPERIMENTS AND MODELLING OF MICRO-JET ASSISTED FLUIDIZATION OF NANOPARTICLES

The fluidization of nanoparticle agglomerates can be largely improved by using downward pointing micronozzles, creating a high-velocity jet, as experimentally shown. By discrete particle simulations – treating the agglomerates as single particles – we show that the main reason is probably the reduction of the agglomerate size by agglomerate-agglomerate collisions.

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