Settling velocities of polydisperse concentrated suspensions

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 783-790

  Ha, Zhanyao ^a   Liu, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Polydisperse suspension; Random packing limit; Sedimentation; Settling velocity; Suspension viscosity

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TERNARY SYSTEMS;

SETTLING VELOCITIES;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

SUSPENSION;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUSPENSION; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037665171     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450800501     Document Type: Article

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