Spray drying of colloidal suspensions: Coupling of particle drying and transport models with experimental validations

A numerically effective approach was developed for the modeling of spray-drying colloidal suspensions. This based on integration two models. The first is a phenomenological and radially symmetric model accounting drying single-droplets, while second employs computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to account gas flow conditions atomization in spray dryer. Experiments were also conducted single suspension droplets trapped an acoustic field as well mini-spray predictions models found be reasonable agreement with experimental data, terms droplet shrinking buckling, particle yield, spatial distribution dryer mockup.