Article ID: 25-18
Ice slurry is a mixture of micro ice particles and water or an aqueous solution, and is expected to be used in various fields such as food cooling and pipe cleaning. However, the agglomeration force of ice particles poses a problem of blockage in pipes. The agglomeration force between ice particles has not been quantitatively evaluated, and its existence is only known empirically. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate the agglomeration force acting on ice particles. The agglomeration force was calculated from the maximum weight that could be held by a simple loading experiment on an ice slurry without flow. In this study, ice slurries were generated using sodium chloride and ethanol as solutes. The agglomeration force of ice particles was found to increase with an increase in the IPF and a decrease in the solute concentration. For the same molar mass, there was little difference depending on the solute.
