Optical Particle Sizing: Theory and Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Light Scattering Theory: a Progress Report....Pages 1-15
Mie Scattering Near the Critical Angle....Pages 17-25
Scattering of a Gaussian Beam by a Sphere Using a Bromwich Formulation : Case of an Arbitrary Location....Pages 27-42
Effects of Particle Nonsphericity on Light-Scattering....Pages 43-53
Particle Sizing by Inversion of Extinction Data....Pages 55-61
Small Angle Light Scattering Patterns from Micrometer- Sized Spheroids....Pages 63-76
Laser Beam Scattering by Individual Spherical Particles: Numerical Results and Application to Optical Sizing....Pages 77-88
Extraction of Polydispersity Information in Photon Correlation Spectroscopy....Pages 89-98
Particle Size Distributions from Fraunhofer Diffraction....Pages 99-105
Calculation of Calibration Curves for the Phase Doppler Technique: Comparison between Mie Theory and Geometrical Optics....Pages 107-120
Particle Sizing of Polydisperse Samples by Mie-Scattering....Pages 121-133
Optimal Scaling of the Inverse Fraunhofer Diffraction Particle Sizing Problem: The linear System Produced by Quadrature....Pages 135-146
Optimal Filtering Applied to the Inversion of the Laplace Transform....Pages 147-158
Modeling of Multiple Scattering Effects in Fraunhofer Diffraction Particle Size Analysis....Pages 159-175
LDV-Signal-Analysis for Particle Velocity and Size Detection Using Geometrical Optics....Pages 177-192
Employment of Light Scattering Information to Lay out Optical Measuring Systems for Measurements of Particle Properties....Pages 193-215
Measurement of Particle Asymmetry Using Cross-Correlation Techniques....Pages 217-228
Lambda Depression/Overlay Histogram Analysis of Poly(Acrylate) as a Function of Added Salt....Pages 229-240
Measurement of Small Polydispersities by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy....Pages 241-247
Optical Extinction Spectra of Systems of Small Metal Particles with Aggregates....Pages 249-258
Particle Sizing of Soot in Flat Premixed Hydrocarbon Oxygen Flames by Light Scattering....Pages 259-270
An Instrument to Measure the Size, Velocity and Concentration of Particles in a Flow....Pages 271-282
The Phase Doppler Method: Analysis and Application....Pages 283-299
Fraunhofer Diffraction by Random Irregular Particles....Pages 301-310
Application of the Shifrin Inversion to the Malvern Particle Sizer....Pages 311-319
Measurement of Size Distribution in Dense Particle Fields....Pages 321-334
Particle Sizing by Laser Light Diffraction : Improvements in Optics and Algorithms....Pages 335-349
Shape, Concentration and Anomalous Diffraction Effects in Sizing Solids in Liquids....Pages 351-362
Scattered Light Particle Size Counting Analysis: Influence of Shape and Structure....Pages 363-369
Visible Infra-Red Double Extinction Measurements in Densely Laden Media, New Progress....Pages 371-384
Observations of Elastic Angular Scattering from Oriented Single Cylinders....Pages 385-392
Effect of Particle Shape on the Response of Single Particle Optical Counters....Pages 393-409
Forward Scattering Signature of a Spherical Particle Crossing a Laser Beam out of the Beam Waist....Pages 411-417
Effects of Shape and Orientation to be Considered for Optical Particle Sizing....Pages 419-429
Application of Top-Hat Laser Beam to Particle Sizing in LDV System....Pages 431-441
Size and Velocity Measurements of Spherical Particles in Multiphase Flows and the Prediction of Absolute Particle Concentrations....Pages 443-454
An LDA Gating Technique for Bubble Measurement in Dilute Three-Phase Suspension Flows....Pages 455-463
Light Scattering by Dust Particles: Experimental Results....Pages 465-469
Optical Particle Sizing : Digital Video Image Processing Application....Pages 471-482
The Direct Comparison of Three ‘In-Flight’ Droplet Sizing Techniques for Pesticide Spray Research....Pages 483-497
An application of an Optical Particle Sizing Method to the Study of the Evaporation of Droplets Diffusing in a Turbulent Flow....Pages 499-509
Optical Measurement of Droplet Evaporation Rates....Pages 511-522
Study of Condensational Growth of Water Droplets by Optical Mie Scattering Spectroscopy....Pages 523-528
Optical Sizing of Cometary Dust : Tentative Lessons from Comet Halley Data....Pages 529-547
Measurements of Absolute Concentration and Size Distribution of Particles by Laser Small Angle Scattering....Pages 549-558
Some Aspects of Utilization of Malvern Diffraction Granulometer....Pages 559-571
Optical Methods in Submicronic Aerosol Measurement....Pages 573-584
The Use of Calibration Techniques for the Development and Application of Optical Particle Sizing Instruments....Pages 585-601
Optical Particle Sizing and Particle Characterization Based on Polarization Measurements....Pages 603-609
Optical Calibration of Accurate Particle Sizing Standards at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards....Pages 611-622
Conclusion and Perspective....Pages 623-635
Back Matter....Pages 637-642