Kinetics of dispersion for sparse agglomerates in simple shear flows: Application to silica agglomerates in silicone polymers

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 5193-5204

  Bohin, Fabrice ^a,b   Manas Zloczower, Ica ^a   Feke, Donald L ^c  

^a Dept of Macromolecular Science ^*  (United States)

^b SANOFI   (France)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

agglomerates; Cohesive strength; dispersion; fluid infiltration; hydrodynamic shear

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SHEAR FLOW; SILICA; SILICONES;

COHESIVE STRENGTH; HYDRODYNAMIC SHEAR; POLYDIMETHYL SILOXANE; SPARSE AGGLOMERATES;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

AGGLOMERATION; DISPERSION; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0030300922     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(96)00338-7     Document Type: Article

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