Investigating mixing in a multi-dimensional rotary mixer: Experiments and simulations

Powder Technology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-92

  Manickam, S S ^a   Shah, R ^a   Tomei, J ^a   Bergman, T L ^a   Chaudhuri, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete Element Model (DEM); Granular materials; Mixing

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DISPERSIONS; AXIAL-MIXING; BATCH MIXERS; COATING APPLICATION; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODEL (DEM); DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELS; DUAL AXIS; FILL LEVEL; GRANULAR FLOWS; GRANULAR MIXING; GRANULAR SOLIDS; HOLLOW VESSELS; MIXING CHARACTERISTICS; MIXING PERFORMANCE; MIXING STATE; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PARTICLE FLOW; POWDER MIXING; POWDER PRODUCTS; RADIAL CONVECTION; ROTATING SHAFT; SEGREGATION AND MIXING; SINGLE-AXIS; VESSEL SPEED;

BLENDING; BRICKMAKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINING; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NUMERICAL METHODS; ROTATION; SPACECRAFT;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

FERTILIZER;

ARTICLE; CERAMIC INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; DRUG INDUSTRY; EXPERIMENT; FOOD INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIXER; MIXING; PARAMETRIC TEST; PARTICLE SIZE; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SOLID; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77952290018     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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