Effect of Breakage on the Bipolarly Charged Particles

Abstract

The population balance equation (PBE) was solved numerically by using the sectional method to investigate the effect of breakage on the agglomeration between bipolarly charged particles. Calculations showed that breakage results in the increase of small particles and the decrease of large particles bipolarly charged, compared to the case with only agglomeration effect. The breakage effects are important when simulating the agglomeration dynamics.