Some equipment
Pilot
- Epurogas: gas wash (4 m high, 50 cm diameter)
- Flow in a gas-liquid pocket pipe (4.5 m long, diameter 40 mm) with synchronisation of 3 cameras (PIV+ombroscopy)
- Bubble plume (2 m quasi 2D)
- DAF dissolved air flotation (1 m3/h) for the capture of algae, flocs, drops or nanoparticles
- Bubble or drop column (2 m, diameter 50 cm)
- Standard 70l stirred tank
- Coagulation / flocculation / decantation (40l quasi 2D)
Measuring system
- Optical tweezers (500mW laser, Thorlabs inverted microscope + microscope)
- Particle velocity tracking (PIV): dual 532 nm laser 2×30 mJ + 4 Dantec cameras
- Photron SA3 high-speed camera, Phantom Mini, PCO1200 (speed > 1000 Hz)
- Laser-induced fluorescence measurement (PLIF): 2x 200 mJ dual laser
- Optical drop and bubble size and velocity sensor (A2S)
- 8 "Slow" cameras < 300 Hz for umbroscopy, colorimetry, general microscopic monitoring
- 2 In-house epifluorescence microscope (inverted with 4 fluorescence class cubes) 0.5 micron/pixel
- Home-made transmission fluorescence microscope
- Particle size measurement (Laser Scattering, Malvern Spraytec, DLS, Nanotrac Microtrac)
Model experience
- Shear flow chamber (100 microns thick) + microscope camera
- Micro-focusing of particles / micro-organisms in a micrometric square tube
- Particle / microorganism deposition chamber on micro-sieve (2-5 micron holes) + microscope
- Hele Shaw diffusion cell (quasi 2D thickness of 2 to 5 mm)
- Isolated rising bubble (0.5 mm to 5 mm bubble, wake transfer, particle capture).
- Flotation chamber (quasi 2D thickness 10 mm) with white water
Digital tools
- Fluent-Ansys fluid mechanics software suite (finite volumes)
- Matlab (Toolbox Image Processing, Opimization)
- Mechanical design Autodesk inventor
- Comsol multiphysics simulation (finite elements)
- ADENON home-made code for dynamic modelling of bioreactors (Matlab )