Prediction of the porosity of multi-component mixtures of cohesive and non-cohesive particles

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4711-4721

  Zou, R P ^a   Gan, M L ^a   Yu, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohesive particles; Mathematical modeling; Packing of particles; Packing similarity; Particle mixtures; Porosity

Indexed keywords

COARSE PARTICLES; COHESIVE PARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS; GLASS BEAD; INTERACTION FUNCTIONS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MEASURED RESULTS; MULTICOMPONENT MIXTURE; PACKING METHOD; PACKING MODELS; PACKING PROBLEMS; PACKING SYSTEMS; PARTICLE MIXTURES; SIZE RANGES; THEORETICAL STUDY;

POROSITY;

MIXTURES;

EID: 80051700612     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.06.037     Document Type: Article

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