Ultrasonic particle size fractionation in a moving air stream

Ultrasonics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-31

  Budwig, Ralph S ^a   Anderson, Michael J ^a   Putnam, Gabriel ^a   Manning, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Manning Applied Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Channel flow; Fractionation; Laminar flow; Particle sizing; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE; ACOUSTIC RADIATION PRESSURE; AIR STREAM VELOCITY; AIR STREAMS; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOAEROSOLS; CENTERLINES; CLEAN AIR; ELECTROSTATIC TRANSDUCERS; FLOW DIRECTION; GLASS MICROSPHERES; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; MICROSPHERE SIZES; MOVING AIR; NOMINAL FREQUENCY; OPTIMAL PARTITIONING; OUTLET FLOWS; PARTICLE SIZE FRACTIONATION; PARTICLE SIZING; PRESSURE AMPLITUDES; RADIATION FORCES; STANDING WAVE; THEORETICAL MODELS; ULTRASONIC STANDING WAVES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC RADIATORS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHANNEL FLOW; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROSPHERES; PARTICLE SIZE; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STANDING WAVE METERS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS; WALL FLOW; WAVES;

SCREENING;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTIONATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASOUND;

AIR; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SONICATION;

EID: 70350591145     PISSN: 0041624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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