Swelling parameters were determined for 15 seed species; the swelling quotients were found to range from less than 1.1 (castorbean) to 2.8 (mungbean) and swelling coefficients ranged from 0.09 (castorbean) to 0.42 (cowpea). Swelling leads to a lowering of specific gravity of those seeds with high initial specific gravity, and an elevation of those with low initial specific gravity. The extent o...

The wharf roach Ligia exotica is a small animal that lives by the sea and absorbs water from the sea through its legs by virtue of a remarkable array of small blades of micron scale. We find that the imbibition dynamics on the legs is rather complex on a microscopic scale, but on a macroscopic scale the imbibition length seems to simply scale linearly with elapsed time. This unusual dynamics of...

The type of solid substrate plays a critical role in determining the kinetics spray fluidized bed (SFB) agglomeration process. In case porous (also soft) primary particles (PPs), droplet aging is due to imbibition and drying. surface properties also change imbibition. focus present work simulate spray-dried milk powder using Monte Carlo (MC) method coupled with drying-imbibition model. order ex...

“Fracturing network+imbibition oil production” is a new attempt to effectively develop low-permeability tight reservoirs. Fracturing fluid not only carrier for sand carrying but also tool in the process of imbibition. On basis imbibition experiments, combined with nuclear magnetic resonance and pseudo-color processing technology, this paper clarified dominant forces different types pore-throat ...

This work introduces capillary flow in paper microfluidics that features a flow rate Q that is constant in time, t, and independent of the viscosity of liquid sample, µ liquid : Q≠f(t, µ liquid). Compared to conventional paper microfluidics, we enclose the paper in solid walls and add a long and narrow air vent as outlet of the capillary pump, such that the flow rate is dominated by the downstr...

The mechanism of the formation for cocurrent downflow pulse flow was studied experimentally in a packed-bed of inert spheres of 3, 6, and 8 mm using an air-water flow. By measuring the flow distance until pulses are observed, the spatial growth rate of convective disturbances within the pulsing-flow regime were determined. Observations indicate that pulses form from trickling-flow as the result...

Water uptake of seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv Limburg was monitored in a controlled atmosphere every day at solar noon for a period of 2 years. The imbibition rate, determined as the mean of five replicas, was related to the lunar cycle, maximal water uptake occurring between the new phases of the cycle. The monthly mean value of imbibition rate, calculated from the daily measurements, disp...