An effective voidage model for sedimentation of bidisperse solid suspension

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1382-1389

  Dutta, Binay K ^a   Bhattacharyya, Suman ^b  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b ONGC   (India)

Author keywords

Bidisperse suspension; Effective voidage; Sedimentation; Settling of a particle mixture; Solid liquid separation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SIZE; BIDISPERSE SUSPENSION; EFFECTIVE VOIDAGE; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; INTERFACE VELOCITY; LIQUID PROPERTIES; ORIGINAL MODEL; PARTICLE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHASE INVERSION; SEDIMENTING; SETTLING OF A PARTICLE MIXTURE; SOLID SUSPENSIONS; SOLID-LIQUID SEPARATION; SOLID-LIQUID SYSTEM; TEST PARTICLES; VOIDAGE;

FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; LIQUIDS; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 68349152638     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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