Continuous blending of cohesive granular material

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5687-5698

  Sarkar, Avik ^a   Wassgren, Carl ^a,b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Discrete element method; Dispersion; Granular materials; Mixing; Particulate processes

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DIRECTION; AXIAL TRANSPORT; BATCH MIXERS; COHESION; COHESIVE MATERIALS; COHESIVE PARTICLE; COHESIVE POWDER; CONTINUOUS BLENDING; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FEED-RATES; FILL LEVEL; IMPELLER SPEED; MIXING RATES; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPTIMAL MIXING; PARTICULATE PROCESS; TRANSVERSE PLANES;

ADHESION; BLENDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 77957347054     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Abouzeid A.-Z.M.A., Mika T.S., Sastry K.V., Fuerstenau D.W. The influence of operating conditions on the residence time distribution for material transport in a continuous rotary drum. Powder Technology 1974, 10:273-288.
2. Bagster D.F., Bridgwater J. The measurement of force needed to move blades through a bed of cohesion less granules. Powder Technology 1967, 1:189-198.
3. Bagster D.F., Bridgwater J. Flow of granular material over a moving blade. Powder Technology 1970, 3:323-338.
4. Bertrand F., Leclaire L.-A., Levecque G. DEM-based models for the mixing of granular systems. Chemical Engineering Science 2005, 60:2517-2531.
5. Bridgwater J., Bagster D.F., Chen S.F., Hallam J.H. Geometric and dynamic similarity in particle mixing. Particle Technology 1968, 2:198-206.
6. Bridgwater J. Fundamental powder mixing mechanisms. Particle Technology 1976, 15:215-236.
7. Chaudhuri B., Mehrotra A., Muzzio F.J., Tomassone M.S. Cohesive effects in powder mixing in a tumbling blender. Powder Technology 2006, 165:105-114.
8. Fan L.T., Chen Y.-M. Recent developments in solids mixing. Powder Technology 1990, 61:255-287.
9. Harwood C.F., Walanski K., Luebcke E., Swanstrom C. The performance of continuous mixers for dry powders. Powder Technology 1975, 11:289-296.
10. Iordanoff I., Fillot N., Berthier Y. Numerical study of a thin layer of cohesive particles under plane shearing. Powder Technology 2005, 159:46-54.
11. Johnson K.L., Kendall K., Roberts A.D. Surface Energy and the contact of elastic solids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 1971, 324:301-313.
12. Laurent B.F.C., Bridgwater J., Parker D.J. Motion in a particle bed agitated by a single blade. AIChE Journal 2000, 46:1723-1734.
13. Laurent B., Bridgwater J. Continuous mixing of solids. Chemical Engineering Technology 2000, 22(1):16-18. (Communications).
14. Laurent B.F.C., Bridgwater J. Dispersive granular flow in a horizontal drum stirred by a single blade. AIChE Journal 2002, 48(1):50-58.
15. Laurent B.F.C., Bridgwater J. Performance of single and six-bladed powder mixers. Chemical Engineering Science 2002, 57:1695-1709.
16. Laurent B.F.C., Bridgwater J. Influence of agitator design on powder flow. Chemical Engineering Science 2002, 57:3781-3793.
17. Levenspiel O. Chemical Reaction Engineering 1999, Wiley, Hoboken. third ed.
18. Lian G., Thornton C., Adams M.J. A theoretical study of the liquid bridge forces between two rigid spherical bodies. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 1993, 161:138-147.
19. Luding S. Shear flow modeling of cohesive and frictional fine powder. Powder Technology 2005, 158:45-50.
20. Malhotra K., Mujumdar A.S., Imakoma H., Okazaki M. Fundamental particle mixing studies in an agitated bed of granular materials in a cylindrical vessel. Powder Technology 1988, 55:107-114.
21. Malhotra K., Mujumdar A.S., Okazaki M. Particle flow patterns in a mechanically stirred two-dimensional cylindrical vessel. Powder Technology 1990, 60:179-189.
22. Malhotra K., Mujumdar A.S. Particle mixing and solids flowability in granular beds stirred by paddle-type blades. Powder Technology 1990, 61:155-164.
23. Martin T.W., Seville J.P.K., Parker D.J. General method for quantifying dispersion in multiscale systems using trajectory analysis. Chemical Engineering Science 2007, 62:3419-3428.
24. Matuttis H-G., Schinner A. Particle simulation of cohesive granular materials. International Journal of Modern Physics C 2001, 12(7):1011-1021.
25. McCarthy J.J. Micro-modeling of cohesive mixing processes. Powder Technology 2003, 138:63-67.
26. Mishra B.K., Thornton C., Bhimji D. A preliminary investigation of agglomeration in a rotary drum. Minerals Engineering 2002, 15:27-33.
27. Moakher M., Shinbrot T., Muzzio F.J. Experimentally validated computations of flow, mixing and segregation of non-cohesive grains in 3D tumbling blenders. Powder Technology 2000, 109:58-71.
28. Muguruma Y., Tanaka T., Tsuji Y. Numerical simulation of particulate flow with liquid bridge between particles (simulation of centrifugal tumbling granulator). Powder Technology 2000, 109:49-57.
29. Muller P., Antonyuk S., Tomas J., Heinrich S. Investigation of the restitution coefficient of granules. Micro-Macro-Interactions in Structured Media and Particle Systems 2008, 235-241. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg. A. Bertram, J. Tomas (Eds.).
30. Pernenkil L., Cooney C.L. A review on the continuous blending of powders. Chemical Engineering Science 2006, 61:720-742.
31. Portillo P.M., Ierapetritou M.G., Muzzio F.J. Characterization of continuous convective powder mixing processes. Powder Technology 2008, 182:368-378.
32. Sarkar A., Wassgren C.R. Simulation of a continuous granular mixer: Effect of operating conditions on flow and mixing. Chemical Engineering Science 2009, 64:2672-2682.
33. Sherritt R.G., Chaouki J., Mehrotra A.K., Behie L.A. Axial dispersion in the three-dimensional mixing of particles in a rotating drum reactor. Chemical Engineering Science 2003, 58:401-415.
34. Shinbrot T., Alexander A.W., Muzzio F.J. Spontaneous chaotic granular mixing. Nature 1999, 397:675-678.
35. Sudah O.S., Arratia P.E., Alexander A., Muzzio F.J. Simulations and experiments of mixing and segregation in a tote blender. AIChE Journal 2005, 51(3):836-844.
36. Tomas J. Fundamentals of cohesive powder consolidation and flow. Granular Matter 2004, 6:75-86.
37. Walton O.R., Braun R.L. Viscosity, granular-temperature and stress calculations for shearing assemblies of inelastic frictional disks. Journal of Rheology 1986, 30(5):949-980.
38. Zhou Y.C., Yu A.B., Stewart R.L., Bridgwater J. Microdynamic analysis of the particle flow in a cylindrical bladed mixer. Chemical Engineering Science 2004, 59:1343-1364.