Experimental studies on distributions of granule size, binder content and porosity in batch drum granulation: Inferences on process modelling requirements and process sensitivities

Powder Technology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-101

  Ramachandran, Rohit ^a   Poon, Jonathan M H ^a   Sanders, Constantijn F W ^b   Glaser, Thomas ^b,c   Immanuel, Charles D ^a   Doyle III, Francis J ^b   Litster, James D ^d   Stepanek, Frantisek ^a   Wang, Fu Yang ^d   Cameron, Ian T ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binder Content; Drum Granulation; Multi dimensional population balance; Porosity; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BATCH DATA PROCESSING; BINDERS; CONTACT ANGLE; EXPERIMENTS; GRANULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POROSITY; POWDERS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS MONITORING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

AGGREGATION KINETICS; BATCH GRANULATIONS; BATCH PROCESSES; BINDER CONTENT; BINDER CONTENTS; CONTINUOUS GRANULATIONS; CONTROL CONFIGURATIONS; DRUM GRANULATION; DRUM GRANULATIONS; DRUM GRANULATORS; DYNAMIC YIELDS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GRANULATION MECHANISMS; GRANULE PROPERTIES; GRANULE SIZES; LIQUID CONTACTS; LIQUID SURFACE TENSIONS; LIQUID VISCOSITIES; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POPULATION BALANCE; OPERATING CONDITIONS; OPERATING VARIABLES; POPULATION BALANCE EQUATIONS; POROSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROCESS MODELS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DENSITY; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; POWDER; PROCESS MODEL; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEAR STRESS; SOLID; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 56249146653     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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