Preventing Explosions: How do Powder Flows Electrify?

Project Information

PowFEct

Grant agreement ID: 947606

DOI 10.3030/947606

EC signature date 25 August 2020

Start date 1 May 2021

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 471 225,00

EU contribution € 1 471 225,00

Coordinated by

PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Electrification in turbulent channel flows of liquid dielectrics

Author(s): Mathieu Calero, Holger Grosshans, Miltiadis V. Papalexandris
Published in: Physics of Fluids, Issue 35, 2023, Page(s) 045119, ISSN 1070-6631
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0138425

Recent progress in CFD modeling of powder flow charging during pneumatic conveying

Author(s): Holger Grosshans; Simon Jantač
Published in: Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, ISSN 1385-8947
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.140918

Simulation of PMMA powder flow electrification using a new charging model based on single-particle experiments

Author(s): Holger Grosshans, Wenchao Xu, Tatsushi Matsuyama
Published in: Chemical Engineering Science, Issue 254, 2022, ISSN 0009-2509
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2022.117623

Eulerian formulation for the triboelectric charging of polydisperse powder flows

Author(s): Metin Zeybek, Holger Grosshans
Published in: Physics of Fluids, Issue 33/6, 2021, Page(s) 063304, ISSN 1070-6631
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0054374

A computational framework for electrification of liquid flows

Author(s): Mathieu Calero, Holger Grosshans, Miltiadis V. Papalexandris
Published in: Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Issue 74, 2022, Page(s) 104637, ISSN 0950-4230
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104637

Influence of weak electrostatic charges and secondary flows on pneumatic powder transport

Author(s): Holger Grosshans
Published in: The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2023, ISSN 0008-4034
Publisher: Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.24824

Simulation of the flow of an explosive atmosphere exposed to a hot surface

Author(s): Subrahmanyeswara Velagala, Priyank Raval, Sai Charan Singh Chowhan, Ghazaleh Esmaeelzade, Michael Beyer, Holger Grosshans
Published in: Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Issue 73, 2021, Page(s) 104610, ISSN 0950-4230
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104610

Spatially resolved measurement of the electrostatic charge of turbulent powder flows

Author(s): Xu, Wenchao; Jantač, Simon; Matsuyama, Tatsushi; Grosshans, Holger
Published in: Experiments in Fluids, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 1432-1114
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-024-03791-3

Suppression and Control of Bipolar Powder Charging by Turbulence

Author(s): Simon Jantač; Holger Grosshans
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.054004

The effect of electrostatic charges on particle-laden duct flows

Author(s): Holger Grosshans, Claus Bissinger, Mathieu Calero, Miltiadis V. Papalexandris
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 909, 2021, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.956

Effect of drag force modeling on the flow of electrostatically charged particles

Author(s): Ozler, Gizem; Demircioglu, Mustafa; Grosshans, Holger
Published in: Advanced Powder Technology, 2023, ISSN 0921-8831
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2023.103951

Experimental study of humidity influence on triboelectric charging of particle-laden duct flows

Author(s): Wenchao Xu; Holger Grosshans
Published in: Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 2023, ISSN 0950-4230
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.04345

CFD study of particle backflow in pneumatic conveying systems due to triboelectrification

Author(s): Otome Obukohwo; Andrew Sowinski; Poupak Mehrani; Holger Grosshans
Published in: Powder Technology, 2023, ISSN 0032-5910
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2023.118285

Conference proceedings (2)

Experimental study of humidity influence on triboelectric charging of particle-laden duct flows

Author(s): Wenchao Xu, Holger Grosshans
Published in: 14th International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions, 2022, Page(s) 210-219
Publisher: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Review on CFD modeling of electrostatic powder charging during pneumatic conveying

Author(s): Grosshans, Holger; Jantac, Simon
Published in: 14th International Symposium on Hazards, Prevention and Mitigation of Industrial Explosions, Proceedings, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
DOI: 10.7795/810.20221124

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (1)

METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE CHARGE CHARACTERISTIC VALUE OF ELECTRIC CHARGES OF PARTICLES IN A FLUID STREAM, AND FLUID STREAM CHARGE MEASURING DEVICE

Application/Publication number: 20 22050386
Date: 2022-01-11