Allen Particle size measurement

3rd Auflage 1981
ISBN: 978-1-4899-3063-7
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 678 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Powder Technology Series

Although man's environment, from the interstellar dust to the earth beneath his feet, is composed to a large extent of finely divided material, his knowledge of the propert ies of such materials is surprisingly slight. For many years the scientist has accepted that matter may exist as solids, liquids or gases although the dividing line between the states may often be rather blurred; this classification has been upset by powders, which at rest are solids, when aerated may behave as liquids, and when suspended in gases take on some of the properties of gases. It is now widely recognized that powder technology is a field of study in its own right. The industrial applications of this new science are far reaching. The size of fine particles affects the properties of a powder in many important ways. For example, it determines the setting time of cement, the hiding power of pigments and the activity of chemical catalysts; the taste of food, the potency of drugs and the sintering shrink ageof metallurgical powders are also strongly affected by the size of the particles of which the powder is made up. Particle size measurement is to powder technology as thermometry is to the study of heat and is in the same state of flux as thermometry was in its early days. Only in the case of a sphere can the size of a particle be completely described by one number.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Terence

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sampling of powders.- Sampling of dusty gases in gas streams.- Sampling and sizing from the atmosphere.- Particle size, shape and distribution.- Sieving.- Microscopy.- Interaction between particles and fluids in a gravitational field.- Dispersion of powders.- Incremental methods of sedimentation size analysis.- Cumulative methods of sedimentation size analysis.- Fluid classification.- Centrifugal methods.- The electrical sensing zone method of particle size distribution determination (the Coulter principle).- Radiation scattering methods of particle size determination.- Permeametry and gas diffusion.- Gas adsorption.- Other methods for determining surface area.- Determination of pore size distribution by gas adsorption.- Mercury porosimetry.- On-line particle size analysis.