The viability of SARS-CoV-2 on solid surfaces

M Hosseini, S Behzadinasab, Z Benmamoun… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on life in 2020 and 2021. One method of
transmission occurs when the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, contaminates solids …

Pore network models of drying, contact angle, and film flows

M Prat - Chemical engineering & technology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Pore network modeling is now a well‐established and successful technique for
understanding and predicting a wide range of drying features. This paper presents an …

LBM studies at pore scale for graded anodic porous transport layer (PTL) of PEM water electrolyzer

S Bhaskaran, D Pandey, VK Surasani, E Tsotsas… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxygen invasion inside graded porous transport layer (PTL) of titanium felt is investigated
based on Shan-Chen Lattice Boltzmann Model. The computation domain is obtained from X …

Kinetics of fluidized bed spray agglomeration for compact and porous particles

K Terrazas-Velarde, M Peglow, E Tsotsas - Chemical Engineering Science, 2011 - Elsevier
The effect of the primary particle porosity during the formation of agglomerates in spray
fluidized beds is presented in this study. The method is based on the single micro …

Super-enhanced evaporation of droplets from porous coatings

M Hosseini, A Rodriguez, WA Ducker - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis The addition of a thin, hydrophilic, porous, coating to an impermeable solid will
lead to more rapid evaporation of liquid droplets that impinge on the solid. The droplet will …

Three-dimensional visualization and modeling of capillary liquid rings observed during drying of dense particle packings

A Kharaghani, HT Mahmood, Y Wang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental and numerical pore network simulation studies on convective drying of
capillary porous media under slow isothermal conditions are presented in this work. As a …

Skin effect in the heat and mass transfer model for sewage sludge drying

R Font, MF Gomez-Rico, A Fullana - Separation and Purification …, 2011 - Elsevier
The thermal drying of sewage sludge was studied in the 30–65° C temperature range with
two types of sewage sludge, showing different behaviour in the formation of a skin during the …

Influence of Layer Thickness on the Drying of Lithium‐Ion Battery Electrodes—Simulation and Experimental Validation

J Kumberg, M Baunach, JC Eser, A Altvater… - Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a detailed study of the drying of battery electrodes of different thicknesses is
presented. A mathematical model to calculate the solvent loading and film temperature over …

Transport parameters of macroscopic continuum model determined from discrete pore network simulations of drying porous media: Throat-node vs. throat-pore …

X Lu, A Kharaghani, E Tsotsas - Chemical engineering science, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, the volume-averaged transport parameters of one-dimensional macroscopic
continuum model for drying is determined from three-dimensional microscopic discrete pore …

Model-based scale-up of vacuum contact drying of pharmaceutical compounds

M Murru, G Giorgio, S Montomoli, F Ricard… - Chemical Engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
An integrated methodology for the scale-up of vacuum contact drying with intermittent
agitation is described in this work. The methodology combines a mathematical model of …