화학공학소재연구정보센터
Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Vol.25, No.1, 54-67, 2008
Extension of RDG-FA for scattering prediction of aggregates of soot taking into account interactions of large monomers
The characterization of soot fractal aggregate, i.e., morphology, size, number and volume fraction, by optical diagnostics is very widespread since it is a sensitive and nonintrusive technique. In general, light absorption or scattering by fractal aggregates is quantitatively interpreted by the Rayleigh-Debye-Gans for Fractal Aggregates (RDG-FA) theory due to its simplicity. Nevertheless, important conditions have to be obeyed for the correct use of this theory. Among them, aggregates and primary particles have to be very small in comparison to the wavelength. In addition, internal scattering must be negligible. Moreover, the form factor functions that allow the fractal morphology to be taken into account have been established for a polydispersed population. In contrast to previous studies that evaluated the validRDG-FA range by comparing the difference between rigorous calculations and the RDG-FA approach, the aim of the present study is to evaluate possible corrections that could be applied to the classical RDG-FA formula in order to take into account of aggregates and primary particles internal multiscattering. Therefore, new generalized form factors are proposed allowing the evaluation of the optical properties of one aggregate with a primary particle diameter of up to 90 nm, without any assumptions concerning aggregate complex internal interactions. The presented results are based on the assumption that DDSCAT (Discrete Dipole Approximation) provides accurate results, with a wavelength,lambda = 632 nm, a soot fractal dimension of 1.8 and Dalzel and Sarofim optical index, m = 1.57 - i0.56.