Mixing of powders and granular materials by mechanical means - A perspective

Particuology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 397-427

  Bridgwater, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Current design; Experiments and computations; Mixing mechanisms; Mixing of granular materials; Mixture quality; Opportunities for advance; Perspective; Powder mixing; Research trends; Segregation

Indexed keywords

COHESION; MIXING MECHANISMS; MIXTURE QUALITY; OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVANCE; PERSPECTIVE; POWDER MIXING; RESEARCH TRENDS;

DESIGN; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; MIXTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDERS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84864595207     PISSN: 16742001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2012.06.002     Document Type: Review

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