Effect of pneumatic conveying parameters on physical quality characteristics of infant formula

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 236-244

  Hanley, Kevin J ^a   Byrne, Edmond P ^a   Cronin, Kevin ^a   Oliveira, Jorge C ^a   O'Mahony, James A ^a   Fenelon, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Attrition; Bulk density; Experimental design; Taguchi robust engineering design; Wettability

Indexed keywords

316 L STAINLESS STEEL; AIR VELOCITIES; ATTRITION; BULK DENSITY; DENSE PHASE CONVEYING; INFANT FORMULA; LINEAR MODEL; OPERATING CONDITION; ORTHOGONAL ARRAY; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PHYSICAL QUALITY; PNEUMATIC CONVEYING; PRODUCT QUALITY; TAGUCHI; VERTICAL SECTION; VOLUME MEAN DIAMETER;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; PNEUMATIC CONVEYORS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; PNEUMATICS; STAINLESS STEEL;

CONVEYING;

EID: 79959366781     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2011.04.029     Document Type: Article

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