Fine and ultrafine powders (down to nanoparticles) have recently received growing interest
in both industrial and academic sectors due to their very distinctive features, mainly coming …

A nature-inspired solution (NIS) methodology is proposed as a systematic platform for
innovation and to inform transformative technology required to address Grand Challenges …

Process intensification (PI) is commonly seen as one of the most promising development
paths for the chemical process industry and one of the most important progress areas for …

Interest in structured catalysts is steadily increasing due to the already proven, as well as
potential, advantages of these catalysts. Updating the comprehensive coverage of the first …

Mechanisms used by biology to solve fundamental problems, such as those related to
scalability, efficiency and robustness could guide the design of innovative solutions to …

The dynamics of granular materials are critical to many natural and industrial processes;
granular motion is often strikingly similar to flow in conventional liquids. Food …

Fluidization of biomass particles in the absence of inert bed materials has been tested in a
pulsed fluidized bed with vibration, with the pulsation frequency ranging from 0.33 to 6.67 …

Under certain conditions, gas-solid fluidized beds are known to develop a structured flow of
bubbles when exposed to periodically pulsating air flows. In quasi-two-dimensional beds …

Various approaches to structure gas-solid fluidized beds are reviewed, followed by detailed
discussion on the use of gas pulsation to induce dynamic structuring. Granular media are …

Empirical correlations for bubble diameter and velocity are incapable of predicting the local
bubble behaviors fairly because the impact of local hydrodynamics on bubbles in fluidized …