Scale-up of an electrical capacitance tomography sensor for imaging pharmaceutical fluidized beds and validation by computational fluid dynamics

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Haigang ^a,b   Yang, Wuqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; ECT; pharmaceutical fluidized bed; scale up

Indexed keywords

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY SENSORS; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; MULTI-LEVEL WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; OPERATION EFFICIENCIES; SCALE-UP; SOLID CONCENTRATIONS;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

EID: 80052783830     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/22/10/104015     Document Type: Article

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