Membrane wettability manipulation via mixed-dimensional heterostructured surface towards highly efficient oil-in-water emulsion separation

J Zhang, F Zhang, W Fang, J Jin - Journal of Membrane Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Membranes with super-wetting surface work well at separating oil-water mixtures, but
efficient and continuous separation of surfactant-stabilized oil-in-water emulsion is difficult to …

An optimized Eulerian–Lagrangian method for two-phase flow with coarse particles: Implementation in open-source field operation and manipulation, verification, and …

Y Zhang, XB Lu, XH Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The solid–liquid two-phase flow with coarse particles is ubiquitous in natural phenomena
and engineering practice, which is characterized by coarse particles, high particle …

Autonomous liquid–liquid extraction operation in biologics manufacturing with aid of a digital twin including process analytical technology

A Uhl, A Schmidt, MW Hlawitschka, J Strube - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Liquid–liquid extraction has proven to be an aid in biologics manufacturing for cell and
component separation. Because distribution coefficients and separation factors can be …

Modeling of oil–water separation efficiency in three-phase separators: Effect of emulsion rheology and droplet size distribution

LM Oshinowo, RD Vilagines - Chemical engineering research and design, 2020 - Elsevier
The multi-fluid Eulerian multiphase model coupled with the inhomogeneous population
balance model is applied to predict the gas, oil, and water separation behavior and …

Experimental study and numerical verification of silted-up dam break

F Vosoughi, G Rakhshandehroo, MR Nikoo… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, multiphase flood waves caused by failure of silted-up dams have been
scrutinized experimentally, and efficacy of the public-domain CFD software OpenFOAM …

Superwetting stainless steel mesh used for both immiscible oil/water and surfactant-stabilized emulsion separation

YP Zhang, YN Wang, L Wan, XX Chen, CH Zhao - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The design and fabrication of advanced membrane materials for versatile oil/water
separation are major challenges. In this work, a superwetting stainless steel mesh (SSM) …

Impact of feeding conditions on continuous liquid-liquid gravity separation, part I: Inlet and outlet drop size, dense-packed zone and separation efficiency

S Ye, L Hohl, M Kraume - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The influence of feeding conditions on outlet drop sizes, dense-packed zone, and
separation efficiency of a liquid-liquid gravity separator was investigated experimentally. A …

Downstream semi-circular obstacles' influence on floods arising from the failure of dams with different levels of reservoir silting

F Vosoughi, MR Nikoo, G Rakhshandehroo… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Dam-break wave propagation in a debris flood event is strongly influenced by accumulated
reservoir-bound sediment and downstream obstacles. For instance, the Brumadinho dam …

Automated interface detection in liquid-liquid systems using self-calibrating ultrasonic sensor

D Mukherjee, N Sen, KK Singh, S Saha… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Detection of liquid-liquid interface is critical in solvent extraction equipment/contactors
typically used in petroleum and hydrometallurgical industries. An instrumentation system …

Fluid dynamics in continuous settler

FDT Luna, AG Silva, NK Fukumasu, O Bazan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuous settlers are present in the treatment of effluents and domestic water. They have
low operational and maintenance cost; however, they can reach high separation efficiency …