Breakage behavior characterization of micron-scale particles

AIChE Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 780-792

  Livk, I ^a   Ilievski, D ^a,b  

^a Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions   (Australia)

^b ALCOA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alumina; Breakage rate; Multidimensional population balance; Particle breakage; Particle strength; Particle toughness

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BREAKAGE RATE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL POPULATION BALANCE; PARTICLE BREAKAGE; PARTICLE STRENGTH; PARTICLE TOUGHNESS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ALUMINA; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 34047202715     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11135     Document Type: Article

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