Periodic section modeling of convective continuous powder mixing processes

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-78

  Gao, Yijie ^a   Ierapetritou, Marianthi ^a   Muzzio, Fernando ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

DEM; Mixing; Particle technology; RTD; Variance

Indexed keywords

BATCH MIXING PROCESS; CONTINUOUS MIXING; CONTINUOUS POWDER MIXING; DEM; DESIGN AND CONTROL; GENERAL MODEL; MIXING PROCESS; PARTICLE TECHNOLOGY; POWDER FLOW; POWDER MIXING; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; RTD; SATISFACTORY PREDICTIONS; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

MIXING;

EID: 80052706912     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12563     Document Type: Article

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