Larger voids in mechanically stable, loose packings of 1.3 μm frictional, cohesive particles: Their reconstruction, statistical analysis, and impact on separation efficiency

Journal of Chromatography A

Volumn 1436, Issue , 2016, Pages 118-132

  Reising, Arved E ^a   Godinho, Justin M ^b   Hormann, Kristof ^a   Jorgenson, James W ^b   Tallarek, Ulrich ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed reconstruction; Interparticle forces; Packing density; Packing process; Slurry concentration; Wall effects

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FRICTION; FUSED SILICA; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEPARATION; SILICA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CRITICAL CONCENTRATION; FUSED-SILICA CAPILLARIES; INTERPARTICLE FORCE; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PACKING DENSITY; SLURRY CONCENTRATION; WALL EFFECTS;

SLURRIES;

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SLURRY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; FRICTION; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASOUND; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEVICES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; POROSITY; PROCEDURES;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FRICTION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84983161302     PISSN: 00219673     EISSN: 18733778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2016.01.068     Document Type: Article

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