Post Cyclone (PoC): An Innovative Way to Reduce the Emission of Fines from Industrial Cyclones

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2766-2774

  Ray, Madhumita B ^a,c   Luning, Pouwel E ^a   Hoffmann, Alex C ^a   Plomp, Adri ^b   Beumer, Maurice I L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Gebouw Travelport   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

POST CYCLONE; VORTEX FINDER;

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

EID: 0031186771     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960778m     Document Type: Article

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