Foam granulation: Liquid penetration or mechanical dispersion?

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 5204-5211

  Tan, Melvin X L ^a   Hapgood, Karen P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Foam; Granulation; Granule size distribution; High shear mixer Nucleation

Indexed keywords

AREA OF INTEREST; BINDER DISTRIBUTION; FOAM DRAINAGE; GRANULE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HIGH SHEAR; HIGH SHEAR MIXERS; IMPELLER SPEED; LATEST DEVELOPMENT; LIQUID PENETRATION; MECHANICAL DISPERSION; NUCLEI SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; POWDER BED; POWDER MIXING; SIMILAR GRANULE; STATIC POWDERS; WET GRANULATION; WET MASSING;

AGGLOMERATION; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NUCLEATION; SIZE DETERMINATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUGARS; WETTING;

GRANULATION;

EID: 80051861517     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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