Journal
AICHE JOURNAL
Volume 66, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/aic.16885
Keywords
agglomeration; flame spray pyrolysis (FSP); gas-to-particle nucleation; population balance model (PBM); tetragonal zirconia (ZrO2) nanoparticles
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- SPP 1980 SPRAYSYN [LM 3333/14-1, FR 912/42-1]
- German Research Foundation [FR 912/33]
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In flame spray pyrolysis (FSP), the evolution of metal oxide nanoparticles relies on quite a number of droplet (liquid) and vapor phase related physical mechanism as for instance precursor evaporation, oxidation, nucleation via gas-to-particle conversion mechanism, and subsequent particle (solid) growth mechanisms based on coagulation, sintering/coalescence, and agglomeration. The liquid precursor and dispersion oxygen feed rates are relevant control parameters of the FSP process for tailoring the nanoparticle size (diameter) and structure as well as the atomizer nozzle configuration. Sophisticated nonintrusive, laser-based in situ and ex situ diagnostics with multiscale spatial resolution (micrometer to meter range) are applied for analyzing droplet formation and size, gas velocity, temperature, species concentration, as well as primary and agglomerate diameters along the flow direction. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are coupled with population balance modeling (PBM) to elucidate the nanoparticle dynamics within the reactive spray. It is found that the CFD-PBM approach allows estimations of primary and agglomerate nanoparticle diameters within 80 and 75% accuracy compared to experimental data, suggesting that the methods presented could pave the way for designing next-generations of flame reactors.
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