An investigation of carbon nanotube jet grinding

作者：Baddour Carole E^*; Briens Cedric L; Bordere Serge; Anglerot Didier; Gaillard Patrice

来源：Chemical Engineering and Processing, 2008, 47(12): 2195-2202.

DOI：10.1016/j.cep.2007.11.012

• Carbon nanotubes
• Jet grinding
• Particulate processes
• Attrition
• Agglomeration

Since their observation in 1976 and 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have generated much interest due to their properties a rid potential applications. CNTs are tubular carbon molecules With remarkable mechanical, electrical, chemical and thermal properties, which make them useful in various applications. Industries producing CNTs via the fluidized bed chemical vapor deposition technique face Challenges related to the size of CNT bundles. The two main challenges are agglomeration and agglomerate size distribution control. A solution to these challenges involves the use of jet mins to grind the CNT agglomerates. The goal of this study was to determine whether the nanotubes could be ground With air jets using a commercial jet min and apply a two-parameter model to describe the grinding process. The present study has indicated that air-jet grinding of CNTs is feasible with a typical commercial jet min. This paper presents the effect of operational parameters oil the arithmetic mean diameter of the ground product. Sonic velocity through the grinding nozzles was required to obtain reasonable grinding rates and relatively narrow particle size distributions. This occurs at high air to solids feedrate ratios. Additionally, a simple attrition model can describe the grinding process in the spiral jet min.

• 出版日期2008-11