Experimental study of a liquid fluidization in a microfluidic channel

Vladimir Zivkovic; Mark J. Biggs; Zeyad T. Alwahabi

doi:10.1002/aic.13961

Experimental study of a liquid fluidization in a microfluidic channel

Vladimir Zivkovic^*, Mark J. Biggs, Zeyad T. Alwahabi

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Abstract

Significance: This study reports the first ever experimental study of true micro-fluidization: a liquid-fluidized bed of 30.5 μm micro-particles within a rectangular micro-channel of 400 × 175 μm². The failure to fluidize the micro-particles with water demonstrated the importance of surface forces for micro-fluidization. Use of ethanol instead leads to fluidization that is largely well described by conventional fluidization equations, although higher values of empirical constant (k and n) are obtained for Richardson-Zaki correlation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	361-364
Number of pages	4
Journal	AIChE Journal
Volume	59
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.13961
Publication status	Published - Feb 2013

Keywords

Fluidization
Granular materials
Liquid fluidized bed
Microfluidics
Microfluidized bed
Multiphase flow

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
General Chemical Engineering

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