Probing heterogeneous structure of aggregates

Drying Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1018-1023

  Yang, Zeng ^a   Lee, Duu Jong ^b   Mujumdar, Arun ^c   Peng, Xiao Feng ^a   Su, Ay ^d   Hsu, Chien ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CLSM; Floc; Multifractal; Structure

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FRACTALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PAINTING; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICRO SCOPY (CLSM); DIRECT METHOD (DM); ERROR BARS; FRACTAL SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; INTERCONNECTED PORE NETWORKS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL CHARACTERISTICS; SINGULARITY SPECTRUM; SINGULARITY STRENGTH; SPATIAL RESOLUTION (SR); STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 47749120315     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930802177719     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Tambo, N. and Watanabe, Y. (1979) Physical characteristics of floc-I. The floc density function and aluminum floc. Water Research, 13:5, pp. 409-419.
2. Li, D. H. and Ganczarczyk, J. (1989) Fractal geometry of particle aggregates generated in water and wastewater treatment processes. Environmental Science & Technology, 23:11, pp. 1385-1389.
3. Jiang, Q. and Logan, B. E. (1991) Fractal dimensions of aggregates determined from steady-state size distributions. Environmental Science & Technology, 25:12, pp. 2031-2038.
4. Li, X. Y., Yuan, Y. and Wang, H. W. (2003) Hydrodynamics of biological aggregates of different sludge ages: An insight into the mass transport mechanisms of bioaggregates. Environmental Science & Technology, 37:2, pp. 292-299.
5. Jin, B., Wilen, B. M. and Lant, P. (2004) Impacts of morphological, physical and chemical properties of sludge flocs on dewaterability of activated sludge. Chemical Engineering Journal, 98:1, pp. 115-126.
6. Li, X. Y. and Leung, R. P. C. (2005) Determination of the fractal dimension of microbial flocs form the change in their size distribution after breakage. Environmental Science & Technology, 39:8, pp. 2731-2735.
7. Guan, J., Waite, T. D. and Amal, R. (1998) Rapid structure characterization of bacterial aggregates. Environmental Science & Technology, 32:23, pp. 3735-3742.
8. Gorczyca, B. and Ganczarczyk, J. (2001) Fractal analysis of pore distributions in alum coagulation and activated sludge flocs. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 36:4, pp. 687-700.
9. Gorczyca, B. and Ganczarczyk, J. (2002) Flow rates through alum coagulation and activated sludge flocs. Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, 37:2, pp. 389-398.
10. Jorand, F., Zartarian, F., Thomas, F., Block, J. C., Bottero, J. Y., Villemin, G., Urbain, V. and Manem, J. (1995) Chemical and structural (2D) linkage between bacteria within activated-sludge flocs. Water Research, 29:7, pp. 1639-1647.
11. Sanin, F. D. and Vesilind, P. A. (1996) Ynthetic sludge: A physical/ chemical model in understanding bioflocculation. Water Environment Research, 68:5, pp. 927-933.
12. Lee, D. J. (1999) Comment on "Hydrodynamic drag force exerted on a moving floc and its implication to free-settling tests" by Wu, R.M.; Lee, D.J. Water Research 32(3), 760-768 (1998)-Reply. Water Research, 33:4, p. 1116.
13. Wu, R. M., Lee, D. J., Waite, T. D. and Guan, J. (2002) Multilevel structure of sludge flocs. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 252:2, pp. 383-392.
14. Tao, T., Peng, X. F. and Lee, D. J. (2006) Interaction between ice and floc under freezing. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, 37:3, pp. 299-304.
15. Tien, C. and Ramarao, B. V. (2006) On analysis of cake formation and growth in cake filtration. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, 37:1, pp. 81-94.
16. Arlabosse, P. and Chitu, T. (2007) Identification of the limiting mechanism in contact drying of agitated sewage sludge. Drying Technology, 25:4, pp. 557-567.
17. Lee, D. J., Lai, J. Y. and Mujumdar, A. S. (2006) Moisture distribution and dewatering efficiency for wet materials. Drying Technology, 24:10, pp. 1201-1208.
18. Kung, H. H. (2006) Nanotechnology: Opportunity for chemical engineering. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, 37:1, pp. 1-7.
19. Otawara, K. and Kitamura, T. (2006) Comparison of a belt-filter and centrifuge in the crystal purification process with CDC (cooling disc crystallizer) and KCP (Kureha crystal purifier). Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, 37:5, pp. 509-512.
20. Novak, J. T. (2006) Dewatering of sewage sludge. Drying Technology, 24:10, pp. 1257-1262.
21. Sheng, W. Y., Peng, X. F., Lee, D. J. and Su, A. (2006) Coagulation of particles through rapid mixing. Drying Technology, 24:10, pp. 1271-1276.
22. Lambert, S., Moustier, S., Dussouillez, P., Barakat, M., Bottero, J. Y., Le Petit, J. and Ginestet, P. (2003) Analysis of the structure of very large bacterial aggregates by small-angle multiple light scattering and confocal image analysis. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 262:2, pp. 384-390.
23. Chu, C. P. and Lee, D. J. (2004) Bilevel thresholding of sliced image of sludge floc. Environmental Science & Technology, 38:4, pp. 1161-1169.
24. Chu, C. P. and Lee, D. J. (2004) Multiscale structures of biological flocs. Chemical Engineering Science, 59:8, pp. 1875-1883.
25. Chu, C. P., Lee, D. J. and Tay, J. H. (2005) Floc model and intrafloc flow. Chemical Engineering Science, 60:2, pp. 565-575.
26. Yang, Z., Peng, X. F., Lee, D. J. and Ay, S. (2007) Advective flow in spherical floc. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 308:2, pp. 451-459.
27. Halsey, T. C., Jensen, M. H., Kadanoff, C. P., Procaccia, I. and Shraiman, B. I. (1986) Fractal measures and their singularities-The characterization of strange sets. Physical Review A, 33:2, pp. 1141-1151.
28. Otsu, N. (1979) A thresholding selection method from gray-level histogram. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man, and Cybernetics, 9:1, pp. 62-66.
29. Chhabra, A. and Jensen, R. V. (1989) Direct determination of the f (α) singularity spectrum. Physical Review Letters, 62:12, pp. 1327-1330.
30. Jensen, M. H. and Kadanoff, L. P. (1987) Procaccia, Scaling structure and thermodynamics of strange sets. Physical Review A, 36:3, pp. 1409-1420.