Crack dynamics of thermally dried sludge cake

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 511-516

  Tao, Tao ^a   Peng, Xiao Feng ^a   Lee, Duu Jong ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Crack; Drying; Fractal dimension; Image analysis; Micro CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DRYING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; THERMAL EFFECTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; SLUDGE CAKE; SLUDGE DRYING; X RAY MICRO-COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER (MICRO-CT);

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

DRYING; FILTER CAKE; SLUDGE;

EID: 27744488003     PISSN: 03681653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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