AN X-Ray tomography study of the effect of processing time on granule structure in high shear melt granulation

AIChE Annual Meeting, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Barrera Medrano, D ^a   Reynolds, G K ^a   Bonsall, J ^b   Salman, A D ^a   MHounslow, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Granulation; Immersion mechanism; Nucleation; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLYCOLS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NUCLEATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); TOMOGRAPHY;

GRANULE STRUCTURES; HIGH SHEARS; IMMERSION MECHANISM; IMPELLER SPEEDS; INTERNAL STRUCTURES; NUCLEATION MECHANISMS; PROCESSING TIMES; SHEAR MIXERS; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHIES; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

GRANULATION;

EID: 56749179630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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