Educational Resources for Particle Technology

Particle Physics 

Technical Areas: adhesion, deposition, fouling, detachment forces, liquid bridge forces, sedimentation, friction, lubrication, mechano-chemistry, mechano-encapsulation, tribocharging, wall deposition

Latest changes: 07Jan27 - NIST constants, reformat to tables / 07Apr18 - reformat, add top tips / 07Aug05 -drop dead links /

TOPIC AREAS
The Significance of PT
Formation from Gas
Formation from Liquid
Comminution, Attrition
Size Enlargement
Particle Physics
Particle Characterization:
   Non-Optical Methods
   Optical Methods
Storage / Discharge:
   Mechanics: wall stress
   Dynamics: flow
Pneumatic Conveying
Fluidized Bed
Mixing and De-mixing
Separation by Size
P./Gas Separation
P./Liquid Separation
Dispersion in Fluids
Rheology
Reaction
Heating, Drying
Safety
Simulation, Modeling
Specific Applications
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ERPT Tutorials

Theory of Van der Waals Forces
          by Rhonda Lee-Desautels (Univ. of Kentucky, Paducah)
-- ERPT 051Q-LeeD

Dispersing Powders in Liquids, Part 2
          by Ralph D. Nelson, Jr., PhD, PE (DuPont Co., retired)
Two-atom Interactions, Two-particle Interactions, Motion in Response to External Fields, Effects of the Surrounding Liquid
-- ERPT 024Q-NelsonB


Web Tutorials (not ERPT)

Fundamental Physical Constants and a discussion of uncertainty are presented by the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)
-- physics.nist.gov/cuu/

Dilute Sedimentation: a tutorial by Richard Holdich (Midland Inst. of Tech.) This is Chapter 5 in his CD on Fundamentals of Particle Technology. You may view these encrypted PDF files online, but they cannot be printed out.
-- www.midlandit.co.uk/particletechnology.htm

Electronic Properties of Materials - a 44-page tutorial by Prof. Leonid V. Zhigilei of the Dept of Material Science and Engineering, Univ. of Virginia.
-- people.virginia.edu/~lz2n/mse209/Chapter19.pdf
See the Course Outline for tutorials on Structure and Properties of Ceramics, Applications and Processing of Ceramics, Polymer Structures, and Characteristics, Applications, and Processing of Polymers, etc.


Web Sites of Educational Interest

Gas Phase Lubrication a slide presentation by W. Gregory Sawyer and Thierry A. Blanchet (Univ. of Florida) describes how lubricants can be created through gas phase reactions and then deposited on the wall to replace the lubricant being lost through wear. Follow the link (on the Tribology Laboratory Web site) to the presentation titled "Vapor Phase Lubrication in Combined Rolling and Sliding Contacts: Modeling and Experimentation"
-- grove.ufl.edu/~wgsawyer/Laboratory/
      Presentations/presentations.HTML

Sedimentation and size analysis in marine systems a slide presentation by Adrian Burd (Texas A&M Univ)
-- www-ocean.tamu.edu/~ecomodel/Publications/OSM/osm.html

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