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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
Volume 53, Issue 11, Pages 4263-4270Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ie4031314
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB733505]
- National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21036004]
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Reactive kinetics coupled with population balance model (PBM) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was implemented to simulate silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) formation in a microtubular reactor. The quadrature method of moments, multiphase model theory, and kinetic theory of granular flow were employed to solve the model, and the particle size distributions (PSD) were calculated. The simulation results were validated by synthesizing AgNPs experimentally in an actual microtubular reactor for comparison with the PSD. The results confirmed the effectiveness of the model and its applicability in predicting AgNPs formation and its PSD evolution in the microtubular system. Finally, benefiting from its superiority, in that the influence of reactive kinetics and fluid dynamics on particle evolution could be considered separately, the model was employed to verify predictions and inferred conclusions in our previous works, which were difficult to verify through experiment.
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