Food powders flowability characterization: Theory, methods, and applications

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 211-239

  Juliano, Pablo ^a,b   Barbosa Cánovas, Gustavo V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

failure; flow; flowability; food powder; hopper; physical property

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF REPOSE; FAILURE PROPERTIES; FLOW; FLOW PREDICTION; FLOW PROPERTIES; FLOWABILITY; FOOD POWDERS; HOPPER DESIGN; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; JOHANSON; NON-CONVENTIONAL METHODS; OUTLET DIAMETERS; PARTICLE COMPOSITION; POWDER FLOW; POWDER MIXING; POWDER RHEOMETERS; RAPID METHOD; SHEAR CELLS; SMALL-SCALE SYSTEMS; STANDARD METHOD; STORAGE SILOS; TIME CONSOLIDATIONS;

BINS; CHARACTERIZATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; HOPPERS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POWDERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FOOD STORAGE;

AUCHENORRHYNCHA;

WATER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; ELEMENTAL DIET; FOOD HANDLING; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POWDER; REVIEW;

FOOD HANDLING; FOOD TECHNOLOGY; FOOD, FORMULATED; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; POWDERS; WATER;

EID: 84855372446     PISSN: 19411413     EISSN: 19411421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.food.102308.124155     Document Type: Article

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