Addressing an inverse problem of classifier size distributions

Powder Technology

Volumn 176, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 123-129

  Rao, B Venkoba ^a  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

Classifier; Inverse problem; Particle size distributions

Indexed keywords

FEED DISTRIBUTION; FLOW SPLIT; MASS FRACTION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

SEPARATORS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEPARATORS;

ARTICLE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLID STATE;

EID: 34447294230     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2007.02.028     Document Type: Article

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