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Entrainment (engineering)
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Entrainment as commonly used in various branches of science and engineering may be defined as the entrapment of one substance by another substance.[1][2][3][4][5]
Types of entrainment
Ther are a great many types of entrainment encountered in chemistry, chemical engineering, other engineering disciplines and in atmospheric sciences. Here are a number of examples:
- The entrapment of liquid droplets in air or any other gas as in aerosols or fog or spray painting.
- The entrapment of liquid droplets and solid particulate matter in a flowing gas, as in smoke entrapped in combustion flue gases.
- The entrapment of gas bubbles or solid particulates in a flowing liquid, as with aeration.
- Given two mutually insoluble liquids, the emulsion of droplets of one liquid entrapped in the other liquid, as with margarine.
- Given two gases, the entrapment of one gas into the other gas.
- The intentional entrapment of air bubbles in concrete.
- The entrapment of solid particles in an air or other gas as in fluid catalytic cracking, fluidized combustion and many other processes utilizing fluidized solids.
References
- ↑ James R.Cooper, W. Roy Penney, James R. Fair and Stanley M. Walas (Editors) (2004). Chemical Process Equipment: Selection and Design, Second Edition. Gulf Professional Publishing. ISBN 0-7506-7510-1.
- ↑ Perry, R.H. and Green, D.W. (Editors) (1984). Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Sixth Edition. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-049479-7.
- ↑ John J. McKetta (Editor) (1992). Unit Operations Handbook: Volume 1, First Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8247-8669-6.
- ↑ Liang-Shih Fan and Chao Zhu (1988). Principles of Gas-Solid Flows. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58148-6.
- ↑ N.N. Kulov (Editor) (1996). Liquid-Liquid Systems. Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 1-56072-189-8.
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