ROW: Rheology and Atomization of Concentrated Suspensions

悬浮液在工业中的广泛应用，如油漆产品、浆液燃料和煤浆运输，长期以来为它们的研究提供了动力。近年来，由于人们认识到水煤浆（CWS）燃料是使用煤炭（美国最丰富的能源之一）替代公用事业锅炉中石油的潜在最经济的方式，因此对悬浮液的研究产生了新的推动力。该研究涉及两个相关学科的实验和理论研究，流变学和空气雾化，在大于胶体大小的颗粒浓缩悬浮液中。主要研究目的是通过在水煤浆技术中的应用，提高对浓悬浮液结构及其作用机理的认识。研究重点将放在受粒子表面性质影响的粒子-粒子和粒子-流体相互作用上。

The widespread uses of suspensions in industry such as paint products, slurry fuels, and coal slurry transportation have for long provided motivations for their study. Recently, additional impetus for study of suspensions has been generated since coal-water slurry (CWS) fuel was recognized as the potentially most economical means for the usage of coal, one of the nation's most abundant energy resources, to replace oil in utility boilers. The research is concerned with experimental and theoretical studies of two related subjects, rheology and airblast atomization, in concentrated suspensions of particles larger than colloidal sizes. The major research objective is to improve understanding of the structure and the underlying mechanisms of concentrated suspensions with application to CWS technology. Research emphasis will be placed on particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions as affected by particle surface property.