Foam granulation: Binder dispersion and nucleation in mixer-granulators

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 526-536

  Tan, Melvin X L ^a   Hapgood, Karen P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binder distribution; Foam granulation; High shear mixers; Nucleation; Wet granulation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; BINDER DISPERSION; BINDER DISTRIBUTION; DELIVERY METHODS; FOAM DRAINAGE; FOAM PROPERTIES; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH SHEAR; HIGH SHEAR MIXERS; LIQUID BINDERS; LOW QUALITIES; MECHANICAL DISPERSION; NUCLEATION EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEATION MECHANISM; NUCLEATION STAGES; NUCLEI FORMATION; NUCLEI SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; POWDER BED; POWDER FLOW; POWDER MIXING; POWDER PARTICLES; PROCESSING CONDITION; WET GRANULATION;

BINDERS; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GRANULATION; GRANULATORS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; NUCLEATION; SHEAR FLOW; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WETTING;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 79956131140     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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