This book introduces comprehensive fundamentals, numerical simulations and experimental methods of electrification of particulates entrained multiphase flows. The electrifications of two particulate forms, liquid droplets and solid particles, are firstly described together. Liquid droplets can be charged under preset or associated electric fields, while solid particles can be charged through contact. Different charging ways in gas (liquid)-liquid or gas-solid multiphase flows are summarized, including ones that are beneficial to industrial processes, such as electrostatic precipitation, electrostatic spraying, and electrostatic separation, etc., ones harmful for shipping and powder industry, and ones occurring in natural phenomenon, such as wind-blown sand and thunderstorm. This book offers theoretical references to the control and utilization of the charging or charged particulates in multiphase flows as well.

Autorentext
GU Zhaolin is a Professor in Environmental Science and Technology, and the Executive Dean in School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University.He is also the Director of the Joint Center of Urban Climate and the Built Environment Research Between Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shannxi Weather Bureau. His research interests include: Multiple phase flow in chemical and environmental engineering; Environmental fluid mechanics; Building energy consumption integration, and technology development of potential energy savings and renewable energy. He is the Regional editor of journal Indoor and Built Environment, and serves as the board member in journal Aerosol and Air Quality Research. He is the Principal Investigator of 30 projects, and has published more than 190 papers in peer-review journals.

Inhalt
Preface.- Particulate charging phenomena in multiphase flows.- Basic theory of droplet charging in multiphase flows.- Basic theory of particle charging in multiphase flows.- Research methodologies of particulate charging processes.- References.