Electrical capacitance tomography as a monitoring tool for high-shear mixing and granulation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4090-4100

  Rimpiläinen, Ville ^a   Poutiainen, Sami ^a   Heikkinen, Lasse M ^a   Savolainen, Tuomo ^a   Vauhkonen, Marko ^a   Ketolainen, Jarkko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Granulation; High shear; Imaging; Mixing; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH-SHEAR; HIGH-SHEAR GRANULATION; HIGH-SHEAR MIXING; MIXING INDEX; MIXING PROCESS; MONITORING TOOLS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS;

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRANULATION; MONITORING;

MIXING;

EID: 79960263863     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.05.044     Document Type: Article

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