Simple Model of Aerosol Particle Formation by the Evaporation–Condensation Method
✍ Scribed by Toshiyuki Nomura; Manuel Alonso; Yasuo Kousaka; Eiji Tenjiku
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Volume
- 231
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9797
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✦ Synopsis
From an engineering point of view the present authors have proposed the simple model of a homogeneous nucleation relationship in the liquid phase that can predict the number concentration of nucleated particles in various operating conditions. Experiments of liquid-phase nucleation in which the precursor monomers were generated by several methods have successfully confirmed the predictions of the model. In the present paper, our previous model of homogeneous nucleation is extended to the case in which the precursor monomers are generated in a gas-phase system. First, a relationship between number concentration and mean volume diameter of nucleated aerosol particles and operating conditions is obtained considering the free molecular regime around the critical nuclei, which is the main difference with the liquid phase. Second, the validity of the relation lies in experimental use of dioctyl sebacate particles generated by evaporation-condensation. As a result, the predictions are in excellent agreement with the experimental results after considering substantial losses of monomers and particles to the walls of the experimental system because in the gasphase the diffusion velocity and the critical supersaturation ratio of monomer are higher than those in the liquid phase.
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