Development of a differential mobility particle sizer applied to industrial gas phase synthesis processes for nanoscaled powders [Elektronische Ressource] / von Petra Magdalena Müschenborn
Development of a differential mobility particle sizer applied to industrial gas phase synthesis processes for nanoscaled powders Von der Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften der Universität Duisburg-Essen zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Ingenieurwissenschaften genehmigte Dissertation von Petra Magdalena Müschenborn aus Rheinhausen jetzt Duisburg Referent: Priv. Doz. Dr.-Ing. F. E. Kruis Korreferent: Prof. Dr. M. Winterer Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 26.01.2007 Content 1 Introduction 1 2 Powder and need of powder size characterization 3 2.1 Industrial gas phase synthesis processes for powders in the nanometer size range 3 2.2 Primary particles, agglomerates, and aggregates 4 2.3 Particle size and particle size distribution 6 2.3.1 Particle size 6 2.3.2 Particle size distribution 7 2.4 Methods for the measurement of size distributions of submicron powders 8 2.4.1 Electron microscopy 9 2.4.2 The specific surface area 11 2.4.3 Optical methods for the determination of submicron particle sizes 11 2.4.4 Particle sizing due to diffusion, inertia, or mobility 12 2.5 Requirements of a size distribution measurement system at industrial powder synthesis processes 13 3 Measurement of number size distributions by the differential mobility analysis 15 3.1 Differential mobility analysis 15 3.1.1 Principle 15 3.1.