Mixing characteristics of wet granular matter in a bladed mixer

Powder Technology

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-189

  Radl, Stefan ^a   Kalvoda, Eva ^a   Glasser, Benjamin J ^b   Khinast, Johannes G ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTER PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bladed mixer; DEM; Granulation; Particle flow; Wet granular matter

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; COMPLEX EFFECTS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DRY AND WET; FLOW REGIMES; FLUCTUATING VELOCITIES; FOUR-BLADED MIXER; GRANULAR FLOWS; GRANULAR MATTER; LIQUID BRIDGE; MIXING CHARACTERISTICS; MIXING INTENSITY; MIXING QUALITY; MIXING RATES; MOISTURE CONTENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARTICLE FLOW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WET AND DRY; WET GRANULAR MATTERS; WET PARTICLES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINED FLOW; FLOW OF SOLIDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GRANULATION; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY POWDER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIXER; MOISTURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 77951497801     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.02.022     Document Type: Article

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