Quantification of the morphology of sucrose crystals by image analysis

Powder Technology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 54-67

  Faria, N ^a   Pons, M N ^b   Feyo de Azevedo, S ^a   Rocha, F A ^a   Vivier, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c Lab de Chimie et Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Discriminant factorial analysis; Growth; Impurities

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

DISCRIMINANT FACTORIAL ANALYSIS (DFA);

SUGAR (SUCROSE);

SUCROSE;

AGGLOMERATION; CRYSTAL;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0041621667     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-5910(03)00078-0     Document Type: Article

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