Using flow perturbations to enhance mixing of dry powders in V-blenders

Powder Technology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 165-172

  Brone, Dean ^a   Wightman, Carolyn ^a   Connor, Kevin ^a   Alexander, Albert ^a   Muzzioa, F J ^a   Robinson, Priscilla ^b  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blender; Granular flow; Mixing

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; BLENDING; FLOW OF SOLIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFILTRATION; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; SOLIDIFICATION;

V BLENDERS;

POWDERS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DRY POWDER; FLOW; MACHINE; ROTATION;

EID: 0343632403     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-5910(96)03231-7     Document Type: Article

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