The agitation of pulp suspensions with a jet nozzle agitator

Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 88-94

  Wikström, Tomas ^a   Rasmuson, Anders ^b  

^a Sunds Defibrator AB   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agitation; Bingham model; Computational fluid dynamics; Pulp suspension; Sonar doppler; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

AGITATION; DISPERSIONS; FLOW; JETS; PULP INDUSTRY; STRESSES; VELOCITY; YIELD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NOZZLES; RHEOLOGY; SONAR; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TANKS (CONTAINERS); VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; YIELD STRESS;

BINGHAM MODEL; SONAR DOPPLER;

PAPER AND PULP MILLS;

EID: 0032090014     PISSN: 02832631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3183/npprj-1998-13-02-p088-094     Document Type: Article

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