Influence of air humidity on drying of individual iron ore pellets

Drying Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1101-1111

  Ljung, Anna Lena ^a   Lundström, T Staffan ^a   Marjavaara, B Daniel ^b   Tano, Kent ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LKAB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CFD; Convective drying; Heat and mass transfer; Mathematical modeling; Porous media

Indexed keywords

AIR HUMIDITY; CAPILLARY TRANSPORT; CONSTANT RATE DRYING; CONVECTIVE DRYING; DEW POINTS; DRYING RATES; DRYING SIMULATION; DRYING TIME; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; INLET AIR; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE GRADIENT; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; SURFACE EVAPORATION; WET BULB TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EVAPORATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; IRON ORE PELLETS; IRON ORES; MASS TRANSFER; MOISTURE; PELLETIZING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS;

DRYING;

EID: 79960217865     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2011.571355     Document Type: Article

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