Using electrical resistance tomography images to characterize the mixing of micron-sized polymeric particles in a slurry reactor

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 517-525

  Tahvildarian, Parisa ^a   Ng, Hwee ^b   D'Amato, Michael ^b   Drappel, Stephan ^b   Ein Mozaffari, Farhad ^a   Upreti, Simant R ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Degree of homogeneity; Electrical resistance tomography; Micron sized particles; Slurry reactors; Solid liquid mixing

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF HOMOGENEITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; MICRON-SIZED PARTICLES; SLURRY REACTORS; SOLID-LIQUID MIXING; SLURRY REACTOR;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; LATEXES; LIQUIDS; MIXING; PUMPS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TOMOGRAPHY;

IMPELLERS;

EID: 79961004507     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.06.056     Document Type: Article

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