Modelling of aluminium scrap melting in a rotary furnace

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 299-308

  Zhou, B ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Reuter, M A ^a   Boin, U M J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Modelling; Population balance; Recycling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTAMINATION; PYROMETALLURGY; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL; SIMULATION;

MODELING; POPULATION BALANCE; ROTARY FURNACE; SALT LAYERS;

MELTING FURNACES;

EID: 31744433966     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2005.07.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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