Estimation of structural element sizes in sand and compacted blocks of ground calcium carbonate using a void network model

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-419

  Laudone, Giuliano M ^a   Matthews, G Peter ^a   Gane, Patrick A C ^b   Matthews, Alexander G ^c   Ridgway, Cathy J ^b   Schoelkopf, Joachim ^b   Huggett, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b OMYA DEVELOPMENT AG   (Switzerland)

^c ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcium carbonate; Compaction; Sand; Skeletal element; Tablet; Void network model

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POROUS MATERIALS; SAND;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; POROUS BLOCK; SOLID PHASE; VOID NETWORK MODEL;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); POROUS MATERIALS; SAND;

ALGORITHM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SAND; VOID;

EID: 33846979512     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-006-0031-y     Document Type: Article

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