Investigation of the effect of impeller rotation rate, powder flow rate, and cohesion on powder flow behavior in a continuous blender using PEPT

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5658-5668

  Portillo, Patricia M ^a   Vanarase, Aditya U ^a   Ingram, Andrew ^b   Seville, Jonathan K ^c   Ierapetritou, Marianthi G ^a   Muzzio, Fernando J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous mixing; Granular aterials; Mixing; Particle processing; PEPT; Powder technology

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MIXING; GRANULAR ATERIALS; PARTICLE PROCESSING; PEPT; POWDER TECHNOLOGY;

ADHESION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BLENDING; FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); ROTATION;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 77957333768     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.06.036     Document Type: Article

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