Design and optimization of drum-type electrostatic separators for plastics recycling

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3503-3509

  Wei, Jing ^a   Realff, Matthew J ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL PROCESSING; PARTICLE CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; PLASTIC SEPARATION; RECOVERY MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RECYCLING;

ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS;

DESIGN; ELECTROSTATICS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTIC RECOVERY; RECYCLING;

EID: 19844382517     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049791u     Document Type: Article

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