Experimental and numerical study of a rotating wheel air classifier

AIChE Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 776-790

  Karunakumari, L ^a   Eswaraiah, C ^a   Jayanti, S ^a   Narayanan, S S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Air classifier; Computational fluid dynamics; Grade efficiency; Particle trajectories; Size classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLOW RATE; GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ROTATING WHEEL AIR CLASSIFIERS; SHUTTER VANES;

WHEELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 15944425392     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10349     Document Type: Article

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