Experiments and simulations of cohesionless particles with varying roughness in a bladed mixer

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4557-4571

  Remy, Brenda ^a   Canty, Thomas M ^a   Khinast, Johannes G ^b   Glasser, Benjamin J ^a  

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

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agitated drying; Bladed mixer; DEM; Granular flow regimes; Granular mixing

Indexed keywords

BLADE SPEED; COHESIONLESS PARTICLES; CYLINDER WALLS; DEM; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATION; FLOW REGIMES; GLASS BEAD; GRANULAR FLOWS; GRANULAR MIXING; GRANULAR TEMPERATURE; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; MIXING KINETICS; MIXING PROCESS; PARTICLE DIFFUSIVITY; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PARTICLE SURFACE; PARTICLE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; PARTICLE VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SURFACE VELOCITY; TIME-SCALES; TIP SPEED; TOP SURFACE; UNIFORM FLOW; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

CONFINED FLOW; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLOW VISUALIZATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY CONTROL; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 77954386341     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.04.034     Document Type: Article

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