Investigation of the layering mechanism of agglomerate growth during drum pelletization

Powder Technology

Volumn 130, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 231-237

  Sastry, Kal V S ^a   Dontula, Prasannarao ^a   Hosten, Cetin ^b  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Drum pelletization; Kinetics; Layering; Mechanisms; Model

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COALESCENCE; MOISTURE; NUCLEATION;

LAYERING PROCESS;

PELLETIZING;

AGGLOMERATION; KINETICS; PELLETIZATION;

ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENTATION; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MOISTURE; PELLET EXTRUSION;

EID: 0037453815     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-5910(02)00271-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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