Closed-form solutions for batch settling height from model settling flux functions

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 964-972

  Grassia, P ^a   Usher, S P ^b   Scales, P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex fluids; Hindered settling factor; Mathematical modelling; Rheology; Sedimentation; Suspension dewatering

Indexed keywords

BATCH SETTLING; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; COMPLEX FLUIDS; ENGINEERING EQUIPMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; HINDERED SETTLING; INTERCEPT PARAMETERS; KEY MATERIALS; KYNCH THEORY; LINE FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; NEW APPROACHES; PARAMETRIC DEPENDENCE; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; RESTRICTED-DOMAIN; SETTLING FLUXES; SETTLING VELOCITY; SIMPLE FUNCTIONAL FORMS; SOLIDS FRACTION; SOLIDS VOLUME FRACTION; STRAIGHT LINES; SUSPENSION DEWATERING; SUSPENSION MATERIALS; SUSPENSION RHEOLOGY;

DEWATERING; ELASTICITY; LIQUIDS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 78651084477     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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