Predicting the flow mode from hoppers using the discrete element method

Powder Technology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Ketterhagen, William R ^a   Curtis, Jennifer S ^b   Wassgren, Carl R ^c   Hancock, Bruno C ^a  

^a PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Flow regimes; Hopper design; Hopper flow; Segregation

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW REGIMES; HOPPER DESIGN; HOPPER FLOW; SEGREGATION;

DESIGN; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAPHIC METHODS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR;

HOPPERS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; FRICTION; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDER DIFFRACTION; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 67649429767     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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