Particle clusters in and above fluidized beds

Powder Technology

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-11

  Cocco, Ray ^a   Shaffer, Frank ^b   Hays, Roy ^a   Reddy Karri, S B ^a   Knowlton, Ted ^a  

^a PARTICULATE SOLID RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elutriation; Entrainment; Fluidization; High speed video; Particle clusters

Indexed keywords

BED HEIGHT; CLUSTER FORMATIONS; COHESIVE FORCE; COLLISIONAL COOLING; DOMINANT MECHANISM; DRAG FORCES; FCC CATALYSTS; GRANULAR TEMPERATURE; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; LARGE SHEAR; PARTICLE CLUSTERS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PARTICLE ROTATIONS; POLYETHYLENE POWDER;

DRAG; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; SPEED; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SHEAR STRESS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 77954624141     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.03.023     Document Type: Article

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