Simulation of agglomeration in spray dryers: The EDECAD project

Lait

Volumn 85, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 343-351

  Verdurmen, Ruud E M ^a   Verschueren, Maykel ^a   Gunsing, Michiel ^a   Straatsma, Han ^a   Blei, Stefan ^b   Sommerfeld, Martin ^b  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Computational fluid dynamics; Modeling; Spray drying

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144467107     PISSN: 00237302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/lait:2005023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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