Determination of the mixing time in a discontinuous powder mixer by using image analysis

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2320-2331

  Daumann, Björn ^a   Fath, Abdelkrim ^a   Anlauf, Harald ^a   Nirschl, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discontinuous powder mixing; Dispersion coefficient; Image analysis; Mixing efficiency; Powder sampling

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISCONTINUOUS POWDER MIXING; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS METHODS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MIXING TIME; PARTICLE FRACTIONS; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOLID COMPONENTS; TRACER MATERIALS;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POWDERS;

MIXING;

EID: 64049084620     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2009.01.032     Document Type: Article

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