Rewetting effects and droplet motion on partially wetted powder surfaces

AIChE Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1402-1415

  Hapgood, Karen P ^a   Nguyen, Thanh H ^a   Hauw, Sunarko ^a   Iveson, Simon M ^b   Shen, Wei ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drop penetration; Granulation; Nucleation; Powder; Spreading; Wetting

Indexed keywords

DROP PENETRATION; DROPLET MOTION; DRY POWDERS; HIGH SHEAR MIXERS; LAPLACE PRESSURE; PENETRATING SYSTEMS; POWDER BED; POWDER SURFACE; RE-WETTING; REGIME MAP; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SPREADING; STRONG CORRELATION; TIME INTERVAL;

DROP FORMATION; GRANULATION; NUCLEATION; WETTING;

POWDERS;

EID: 67649995614     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11772     Document Type: Article

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