Caking of amorphous powders - Material aspects, modelling and applications

Powder Technology

Volumn 206, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 112-121

  Hartmann, Markus ^a   Palzer, Stefan ^a  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amorphous powders; Caking; Sintering; Time consolidation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT; POWDERS; SINTERING;

AMORPHOUS PARTICLES; AMORPHOUS POWDERS; CAKING; CRYSTALLINE PARTICLES; FLOWABLE POWDER; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; POWDER STRUCTURES; TIME CONSOLIDATIONS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

ADHESION; AMORPHOUS POWDER; ARTICLE; CAKING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POWDER; PROCESSING; SOLUBILITY; STRENGTH; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 78649853478     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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