Open AccessSOME EXPERIMENTS ON THE ACCURACY OF THORIA SLURRY SAMPLES
Author(s) -
R.P. Wichner
Publication year - 1960
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4186587
Subject(s) - slurry , sampling (signal processing) , sample (material) , particle size , particle (ecology) , magnitude (astronomy) , materials science , analytical chemistry (journal) , mathematics , environmental science , chemistry , chromatography , physics , geology , composite material , optics , oceanography , detector , astronomy
Tests were performed on a thoria slurry flowing in a pipe to determine the magnitude of the possible error involved in the sampling process. Evidence indicates that a correct sample is obtained by withdrawing the sample isokinetically (i.e., by facing the sampler into the flow and adjusting the sampler velocity to match the ambient velocity) provided that the sampler is larger than some minimura diameter that is dependent on the mean eddy length and/ or the mean particle size. (auth