Coagulation and fragmentation: The variation of shear rate and the time lag for attainment of steady state

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3074-3080

  Spicer, Patrick T ^a   Pratsinis, Sotiris E ^a   Trennepohl, Michael D ^a   Meesters, Gabrie H M ^b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b Genencor International BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULATION; FLOCCULATION; GEOMETRY; INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TANKS (CONTAINERS);

FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION BALANCE MODEL; SHEAR RATE; STEADY STATE; STIRRED TANKS; TIME LAG;

CHEMICAL OPERATIONS;

EID: 0030244523     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie950786n     Document Type: Article

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