A population balance model for high shear granulation

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1309-1334

  Wauters, Philippe A L ^a   Scarlett, Brian ^a   Liu, L X ^b   Litster, James D ^b   Meesters, Gabrie M H ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c DSM RESOLVE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Granulation; High shear mixer; Model; Population balance

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; NUCLEATION; SHEARING;

COALESCENCE GROWTH;

GRANULATION;

MODELING;

EID: 0242317888     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986440302147     Document Type: Article

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