Model for sludge cake drying accounting for developing cracks

Drying Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 922-926

  Hsu, Jyh Ping ^a   Tao, Tao ^b   Su, Ay ^c   Mujumdar, Arun S ^d   Lee, Duu Jong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crack; Image analysis; Model; Sludge cake; Structure

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS MODELS; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; CONVECTIVE DRYING; CRACK DEVELOPMENT; CRACK IMAGE; HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES; MICRO CT; MICRO-COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; SKIN LAYER; SLUDGE CAKE; STRUCTURAL MODELS; VOLUMETRIC GRIDS; WASTEWATER SLUDGE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRACKS; DRYING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODEL STRUCTURES; WASTEWATER;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77954249084     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2010.490775     Document Type: Article

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