The shaft torque change in a laboratory scraped surface heat exchanger used for making ice slurries

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 618-630

  Qin, Frank G F ^a,b   Premathilaka, Shashini ^b   Chen, Xiao Dong ^a,c   Free, Kevin W ^a,b  

^a Freezcon NZ Ltd   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ice slurry; Scraped surface heat exchanger; Shaft torque

Indexed keywords

ICE; SHAFT DISPLACEMENT; SLURRIES;

ICE SLURRY; SCRAPED SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGERS; SHAFT TORQUE;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 37749039786     PISSN: 19322135     EISSN: 19322143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/apj.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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