Open Research will be unavailable from 3am to 7am on Thursday 4th December 2025 AEDT due to scheduled maintenance.

Filtration of nanoparticles: Evolution of cake structure and pressure-drop

Date

Authors

Elmoe, Tobias D.

Tricoli, Antonio

Grunwaldt, Jan-Dierk

Pratsinis, S.E

Publisher

Pergamon Press Ltd.

Abstract

The detailed three-dimensional accumulation of deposits and the build-up of pressure-drop during filtration of compressible gases laden with nanoparticles (diameter dp=50 nm) through capillaries (1-4 μm radius) was investigated by Langevin dynamics (LD)

Keywords

Keywords: Analytical expressions; Cake filtration; Cake growth; Cake morphology; Clogging; Compressible gas; Deposit morphology; Deposition regimes; Filter cakes; Filtration efficiency; Langevin dynamics; Solid volume fraction; Deposits; Ladder networks; Morphology Cake morphology; Clogging; Deposit morphology; Filtration; Langevin dynamics; Nanoparticles; Pressure-drop

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/22178

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Aerosol Science

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.jaerosci.2009.09.002

Restricted until

2037-12-31

Downloads

File

Description

01_Elmoe_Filtration_of_nanoparticles:_2009.pdf (1.28 MB)