Effect of screw design on hopper drawdown of spherical particles in a horizontal screw feeder

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5585-5601

  Fernandez, Justin W ^a,b   Cleary, Paul W ^a   McBride, William ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

DEM; Flow uniformity; Hopper drawdown; Particle flow; Screw design; Screw Feeder

Indexed keywords

DEM; FLOW UNIFORMITY; PARTICLE FLOW; SCREW DESIGN; SCREW FEEDER;

BINS; DESIGN; FEEDING; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW RATE; FRICTION; HOPPERS; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE FLOW;

SCREWS;

EID: 80052841740     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.07.043     Document Type: Article

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