2013
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2012.738753
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Modeling of Drying Curves of Silica Nanofluid Droplets Dried in an Acoustic Levitator Using the Reaction Engineering Approach (REA) Model

Abstract: The use of nanoparticles has become of great interest in different industrial applications. The spray drying of nanofluids forms nanostructured grains preserving the nanoparticle properties. In this work, individual droplets of silica nanofluids were dried in an acoustic levitator. Tests were carried out under different experimental conditions to study the influence of the variables on the drying process. The drying curves were experimentally obtained and REA model was used to obtain the theoretical curves and… Show more

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“…26À28 In the first drying period, when the wet-bulb temperature is reached and the droplet shrinks (shrinkage follows a d 2 -relation), the droplet surface area decreases linearly with the time. 29 In the second drying period a particulate shell is formed. The evaporation through the pores of the shell decreases with increasing shell thickness.…”
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“…26À28 In the first drying period, when the wet-bulb temperature is reached and the droplet shrinks (shrinkage follows a d 2 -relation), the droplet surface area decreases linearly with the time. 29 In the second drying period a particulate shell is formed. The evaporation through the pores of the shell decreases with increasing shell thickness.…”
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“…In principle, the evaporation rate depends on the balance of energy required for evaporation and energy transported to the droplet surface. In the first drying period, when the wet-bulb temperature is reached and the droplet shrinks (shrinkage follows a d 2 -relation), the droplet surface area decreases linearly with the time . In the second drying period a particulate shell is formed.…”
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“…donde el parámetro a debe ser independiente del contenido en humedad inicial, mientras que b y c están interrelacionados y dependen de la humedad inicial y de la temperatura de secado (48,64).…”
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“…The reaction engineering approach model has been also successfully used to model the drying kinetics of thin and thick layers of food materials with accuracy [20,36]. Finally, the model has been used to to predict the drying kinetics of droplets of different liquids and suspensions (skim milk, whole milk, lactose, proteins, sucrose, maltodextrin, glucose, silica nanofluids) [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]37]. In all cases, the correlations needed for the activation energy were obtained so the mathematical model for the drying curve could be used to perform CFD simulations.…”
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“…This method has the disadvantage that the droplet is in contact with the filament and it is not completely isolated. In the last decade acoustic levitators has been extensively used to study the drying behavior of pure liquids, multi-component liquids and liquid-solid suspension droplets [19,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] since there is no mechanical contact with the droplet, do not require any specific physical properties of the sample and provides stable sample position, easy access to the sample and low costs for supply and operation [29].…”
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confidence: 99%