Performance of four axial flow impellers for agitation of pulp suspensions in a laboratory-scale cylindrical stock chest

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4444-4451

  Bhole, Manish R ^a   Bennington, Chad P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MOTION; AXIAL FLOW IMPELLERS; AXIAL FORCES; CAVERN FORMATION; CYLINDRICAL STOCK; DYNAMIC MIXING; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; HARDWOOD PULP; LABORATORY SCALE; MASS CONCENTRATION; NON-NEWTONIAN; POWER CONSUMPTION; PULP FIBERS; PULP SUSPENSION; STANDARD DEVIATION; THEORETICAL VALUES; TIME CONSTANTS; VESSEL WALLS;

AXIAL FLOW; BLOWERS; CAVES; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; IMPELLERS; MIXING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY; YIELD STRESS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 77951681761     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901854d     Document Type: Article

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