Modeling of solid-bowl batch centrifugation of flocculated suspensions

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1351-1362

  Stickland, Anthony D ^a   White, Lee R ^b   Scales, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Flocculated suspensions; Runge Kutta numerical method; Sedimentation; Solid bowl batch centrifugation; Solid liquid separation; Thickening

Indexed keywords

FLOCCULATED SUSPENSIONS; RUNGE-KUTTA NUMERICAL METHOD; SOLID-BOWL BATCH CENTRIFUGATION; SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION; THICKENING;

CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSOLIDATION; FLOCCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SEDIMENTATION;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSOLIDATION; FLOCCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 33645688685     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10746     Document Type: Article

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