Cohesive effects in powder mixing in a tumbling blender

Powder Technology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-114

  Chaudhuri, Bodhisattwa ^a   Mehrotra, Amit ^a   Muzzio, Fernando J ^a   Tomassone, M Silvina ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Blending; Cohesive powders; Mixing; Rotating drum

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); GRANULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; POWDERS; ROTARY KILNS; ROTATIONAL FLOW;

COHESIVE POWDERS; ROTATING DRUM; SIZE SEGREGATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BINARY MIXTURES;

BINARY MIXTURES; BLENDING; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); GRANULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; POWDERS; ROTARY KILNS; ROTATIONAL FLOW;

ARTICLE; FRICTION; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDER; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 33745241824     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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