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Interfacial Phenomena in the Synthesis Process of Barium Sulfate Particles Precipitated in a Lobed Inner Cylinder Taylor-Couette Flow Reactor: Effects of Fluid Dynamics
Three different kinds of morphology with various sizes of barium sulfate particles were produced by reactive precipitation in a Taylor-Couette flow reactor. It is found that particle morphology transition is strongly related to the hydrodynamics in the reactor, clearly indicating an interfacial interaction between feed solutions and aggregated particles. At low concentration, particle morphology transition is observed at the onset of turbulent Taylor-Couette flow. Such morphology transition also appears at the onset of turbulent Taylor vortex flow at high concentration. Based on different transition status, supersaturation is found to play an important role in nucleation and growth processes. In addition, it is revealed that the synthesized particle reduces its size as the consequence of the transition in particle morphology, indicating the effect of variation of the feeding rates. Experimental results have confirmed that controllable synthesis of barium sulfate particles with a particular morphology can be achieved through suitable selection of the controlling parameters such as the rotational speed of inner cylinder of Taylor-Couette flow reactor, reactant feeding rate and supersaturation ratio.
Part of the book: Wettability and Interfacial Phenomena