Reaction Engineering Approach (REA) to model the drying kinetics of droplets with different initial sizes-experiments and analyses

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1738-1747

  Fu, Nan ^a   Wai Woo, Meng ^a   Qi Lin, Sean Xu ^a   Zhou, Zihao ^a   Dong Chen, Xiao ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diameter change; Droplet drying kinetics; Drying; Glass filament gravimetric method; Mass transfer; Reaction Engineering Approach (REA)

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CRUST FORMATIONS; DIAMETER CHANGE; DROPLET DRYING; DROPLET DRYING KINETICS; DRYING BEHAVIOR; DRYING KINETIC; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEED CONCENTRATION; GRAVIMETRIC METHODS; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; LIQUID ATOMIZATION; MASTER CURVE APPROACH; MODELING APPROACH; REACTION ENGINEERING APPROACH; REACTION ENGINEERING APPROACH (REA); SINGLE DROPLET;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ACTIVATION ENERGY; CURING; DROPS; GLASS; MASS TRANSFER; REACTION KINETICS; SPRAY DRYING;

DRYING;

EID: 79952252356     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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