Improved drying in a pulsation-assisted fluidized bed

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 302-309

  Akhavan, Ali ^a   Van Ommen, J Ruud ^b   Nijenhuis, John ^b   Wang, Xiao S ^a   Coppens, Macr Olivier ^b,c   Rhodes, Martin J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZED BEDS;

DOMINANT FREQUENCIES; DRYING TIME; FLUIDIZATION BEHAVIORS; FLUIDIZED BED; GAS FLOWS; PHARMACEUTICAL GRANULES;

FLUIDIZATION;

EID: 61649097768     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800458h     Document Type: Article

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