TY - JOUR
T1 - A bimodal population balance method for the dynamic process of engineered nanoparticles
AU - Shen, Jindong
AU - Jiang, Honghui
AU - Yu, Mingzhou
AU - Kong, Bo
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - The evolution of size distribution of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) from the gas phase to the product in chemical reactors is a complicated heat and mass transfer process, whose mathematical description is commonly characterized by the population balance equation (PBE) in terms of particle number concentration. This study presents a new population balance model (PBM) for resolving the evolution of PBE for ENPs using a bimodal inverse Gaussian distributed method of moments (BIGDMOM). In this method, engineered nanoparticles’ size distribution is constructed by superposing two inverse Gaussian subdistribution. A close model for arbitrary moments is then obtained for achieving the final solution of the population balance equation for ENPs. The precision of BIGDMOM, which is verified in the test cases of two representative ENPs dynamics, is acceptable compared with widely used methods, such as log-normal MOM (log MOM), third-order Taylor-series expansion MOM, and unimodal IGDMOM, for key statistical quantities determining ENP size distributions, including kth moments (k = 0, 1/3, 2/3, and 2), shape factor, mean, and variance, sometimes is even better. Therefore, this study provides a new bimodal particle size distribution for the moment method, which can be used as an option to explore the specific bimodal practical problems of ENPs in the future.
AB - The evolution of size distribution of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) from the gas phase to the product in chemical reactors is a complicated heat and mass transfer process, whose mathematical description is commonly characterized by the population balance equation (PBE) in terms of particle number concentration. This study presents a new population balance model (PBM) for resolving the evolution of PBE for ENPs using a bimodal inverse Gaussian distributed method of moments (BIGDMOM). In this method, engineered nanoparticles’ size distribution is constructed by superposing two inverse Gaussian subdistribution. A close model for arbitrary moments is then obtained for achieving the final solution of the population balance equation for ENPs. The precision of BIGDMOM, which is verified in the test cases of two representative ENPs dynamics, is acceptable compared with widely used methods, such as log-normal MOM (log MOM), third-order Taylor-series expansion MOM, and unimodal IGDMOM, for key statistical quantities determining ENP size distributions, including kth moments (k = 0, 1/3, 2/3, and 2), shape factor, mean, and variance, sometimes is even better. Therefore, this study provides a new bimodal particle size distribution for the moment method, which can be used as an option to explore the specific bimodal practical problems of ENPs in the future.
KW - Engineered nanoparticles dynamics
KW - Inverse Gaussian distribution
KW - Method of moments
KW - Population balance equation
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2022.122605
DO - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2022.122605
M3 - 文章
SN - 0017-9310
JO - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
JF - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
ER -