Experimental and numerical analysis of a lab-scale fluid energy mill

Powder Technology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-39

  Teng, Shuli ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Zhu, Linjie ^b   Young, Ming Wan ^b   Gogos, Costas G ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Polymer Processing Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid Energy Mill; Milling; Particle wall collision; Single phase flow field simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR STREAMS; CONCENTRATED LAYER; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; FEED PRESSURE; FEED-RATES; FINE PARTICLES; FLUID ENERGY; FLUID ENERGY MILL; FOAM FILMS; GAS FLOWS; GAS VELOCITY; GRINDING CHAMBER; GRINDING PERFORMANCE; LOW AIR PRESSURE; MILLING; MILLING PROCESS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PARTICLE-WALL COLLISION; PRODUCT SIZES; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW FIELD SIMULATION; SIZE REDUCTIONS; WALL REGION;

ABERRATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CYCLONE SEPARATORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW FIELDS; FLUIDS; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); GRINDING (MACHINING); MILLING (MACHINING); SIZE DETERMINATION;

FLOW SIMULATION;

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY POWDER; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW RATE; FOAM; GAS FLOW; GRINDING; MATERIAL COATING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCESS MODEL;

EID: 67649449246     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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