An increasing need for portable personal time- and size-resolved monitoring of the fine airborne particulate matter drives the development towards miniaturization and cost reduction of the optical particle counters. In an integrated design of the opt...
Low-cost particulate matter sensors have seen increased use for monitoring at personal and local levels due to their affordability, ease of operation, and high time resolution. However, the quality of data reported by these sensors can be questionabl...
This study presents a reliable particle swarm optimizer for sizing optimization of truss structures. This population-based stochastic optimization approach is based on the principle that each particle communicates its position and function value to a...
The present work envisages the development of a novel and low-cost self-mixing interferometry (SMI) technology-based single particle sensing system in a microchannel chip for real time single micro-scale particle sizing. We proposed a novel theoretic...
Six different commercial powders, finer than 45 μm, were used for examining the effects of particle characteristics on mean particle size and specific surface area. The measurements were carried out using the most commonly used air permeability- a...
Dynamic Light Scattering is a well-established technique used in particle sizing. An alternative procedure for Dynamic Light Scattering time series processing based on spectral entropy computation and Artificial Neural Networks is described. An error...
Triboelectric charging is a potentially suitable tool for separating fine dry powders, but the charging process is not yet completely understood. Although physical descriptions of triboelectric charging have been proposed, these proposals generally a...
The presence of retained colloidal particles causes the retardation of contaminant transport when the contaminant is favorably adsorbed to colloidal particles. Although the particle size distribution affects the retention behavior of colloidal partic...
The confined uniaxial tests of packings with discrete particle size distribution (PSD) were modeled with the discrete element method. Ternary packings of spheres with PSD uniform or nonuniform by number of particles were examined in three-dimensional...
This paper proposes an advanced Pareto-front non-dominated sorting multi-objective particle swarm optimization (Advanced-PFNDMOPSO) method for optimal configuration (placement and sizing) of distributed generation (DG) in the radial distribution syst...
In the present study, the use of a scanning probe microscope is described for monitoring the sizes of nanoparticles. Monitoring is the process of acquiring and analysing the set of overlapping images. The main analysis steps are image segmentation, d...
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of corn particle size on the particle size of intestinal digesta or feces and nutrient digestibility of corn–soybean meal diets. Twenty-four growing barrows (initial BW: 21.9 ± 1.62 kg) wer...
Given the complex separation mechanisms of the particulate mixture in a hydrocyclone and the uncertain effects of particle size and shape on separation, this study explored the influence of the maximum projected area of particles on the separation ef...
This paper presents the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based integrated dynamic hybrid PV-H2 energy system model together with a reflective comparative analysis of its performance versus that of the commercially available HOMER softwa...
The particle size of coal particles is an important factor affecting the physical and mechanical properties of coal. In this study, uniaxial and triaxial compression tests were conducted to investigate the effects of coal particle size on the physica...
Particle size distribution (PSD) is a rich source of information about soil properties, including soil gradation and soil particle size characteristics. This paper compared the PSD prediction ability of three types of mathematical model. We selected...
Particle size and morphology analysis is a problem common to a wide range of applications, including additive manufacturing, geological and agricultural materials’ characterisation, food manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. Here, we review the us...
While most of the influences on the mechanical properties of particleboard appear to have been investigated, there is a lack of knowledge about the influence of particle size or particle dimensions due to the absence of a suitable particle measuring...
Particle mass and particulate size are two important parameters used to characterize the aerosol. Currently, there are a few methods for measuring particle mass concentration and particle size. However, the existing methods have their own shortcoming...
Sample homogeneity dictates whether analyzing a test portion of an entire sample can provide representative information about incurred mycotoxins. In this study, we evaluated particle-size-distribution-based homogeneity of laboratory mycotoxin sample...
This work aims at assessing the impact of two-dimensional particle size distribution (2D-PSD) on the identification of water vapor diffusivity in micrometric size cellulose particles displaying a size aspect ratio lower than 2 and a cylindrical shape...
The packing characteristics of aggregates are very important for aggregate blend design, which is closely related to the performance of mixtures. In this study, an indoor packing experiment was designed to investigate the behaviors of single-size par...
Froth flotation predominantly separates particles according to their differences in wettability. However, other particle properties such as size, shape or density significantly influence the separation outcome as well. Froth flotation is most efficie...
The particle size of powder coatings is an important factor affecting flow and fluidization performance, which in turn determines the quality of the coating. Powder coating particles, such as boron nitride, titanium dioxide, barium titanate, niobium...
Adverse health effects caused by exposure to airborne particles have been detected in recent years, however there is little knowledge about exposure to ultrafine particles with a diameter <100 nm. In this study, particle number concentration and s...
In this work, a series of epoxy acrylate (EA)/mica composite coatings were synthesized through introducing mica powders of different particle size into epoxy acrylate coatings and using an ultraviolet (UV) curing technique to investigate the influenc...
Many cities in China are facing the dual challenge of PM2.5 and PM10 pollution. There is an urgent need to develop a cost-effective method that can apportion both with high-time resolution. A novel and practical apportionment method is presented in t...
Respirable coal mine dust (RCMD) particles, particularly the nano-sized fraction (<1 μm) of the RCMD if present, can cause severe lung diseases in coal miners. Characterization of both the particle size and chemical composition of such RCMD partic...
Asphalt emulsions are used in flexible pavement maintenance and rehabilitation treatments. Emulsion specifications for material characterization are based on testing methodology dating to the 1930s. Newer test methods, including particle size analysi...
In land battlefield environments, aerosol particles can cause laser beams to undergo attenuation, thus deteriorating the operational performance of military laser devices. The particle size distribution (PSD) and extinction coefficient are key optica...
Fly ash is a commonly used mineral addition in construction engineering. Research on its different particle size distributions can help optimize material performance, promote resource utilization, and support environmental protection. In this study,...
Micronized particles are commonly used to improve the content uniformity (CU), dissolution performance, and bioavailability of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Different particle engineering routes have been developed to prepare micron-sized...
A series of high solid content carboxylic acid/sulfonic acid waterborne polyurethanes was prepared by the emulsion dispersion method. The particle size and solid content were measured. By changing the particle size of the large particles to achieve d...
The laser extinction method (LEM) is particularly suitable for measuring particle sizes in flames because this method, which is based on the Beer–Lambert law, is non-intrusive and easy to implement. In the LEM, the interpretation of the extinct...
Gyratory crushers are fundamental machines in aggregate production and mineral processing. Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations offer detailed insights into the performance of these machines and serve as a powerful tool for their design and anal...
Based on the data from a continuous fishery resource survey conducted in the Shandong province area of the Yellow River from the summer and autumn of 2022 to the winter and spring of 2023, this study constructed fish biomass particle-size spectra. It...
Particle coagulation is a facile approach to produce large-scale polymer latex particles. This approach has been widely used in academic and industrial research owing to its higher polymerization rate and one-step polymerization process. Our work was...
For the production of chemicals from biomass, new selective processes are required. The selective oxidation of 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF), a promising platform molecule in fine chemistry, to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is considered a prom...
The attachment of bacteria to sediment particles has a significant impact on the level of bacterial contamination in water. In this work, the attachment of Escherichia coli to particles was investigated with emphasis on the effect of particle size. T...
As a typical high-energy-density material, the sensitivity of CL-20 severely limits its application in explosives and propellants. Adjusting its structure at the microscopic level can effectively solve such problems. In this study, a microfluidic rec...
With the increasing awareness of sustainable mining, the cement tailings backfill (CTB) method has been developed rapidly over the past decades. In the CTB technique, the two main mechanical properties engineers were concerned with are the rheologica...
The recovery of gold by ore leaching is influenced by the size of the particles and the chemical environment. The effect of particle size on the dissolution of gold is usually studied using mono-size particles as the gold in solution comes from the o...
An in-depth understanding of the gravity flow behaviour of broken ore is beneficial to improving the ore recovery in sublevel caving mines. In this study, granular dolomites were used as an analogue to experimentally explore the effect of the physica...
In the study of coal pore structure, the traditional test method does not consider the influence of coal particle size. During the crushing process, coal samples are affected by crushing stress. While the particle size changes, the change characteris...
Because of its weak cementation and abundant pores and cracks, it is difficult to obtain suitable samples of tectonic coal to test its mechanical properties. Therefore, the research and development of coalbed methane drilling and mining technology ar...
This paper used a combination of numerical simulations and experiments to study the hydraulic performance and the wear law of a centrifugal pump when conveying mixed particle sizes. The numerical simulation was based on the Discrete Phase Model (DPM)...
The kinetics of hydrogen absorption/desorption can be improved by decreasing particle size down to a few nanometres. However, the associated evolution of activation energy remains unclear. In an attempt to clarify such an evolution with respect to pa...
A computational tool for simulating the temporal evolution of the soot-particle size distribution function (SDF) in the internal combustion engine (ICE) and in the attached exhaust pipe is developed and tested against available experimental data on t...
Measuring the size of suspended particles in water is crucial in related fields such as environmental engineering, marine engineering, and hydraulic engineering. Considering the size distribution of suspended particles in real rivers, the amplitude (...
Pore characteristics are one of the most important elements in the study of shale reservoir properties and are a key parameter for the evaluation of the potential of shale oil and gas resources. Low-temperature nitrogen adsorption is a common laborat...
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