Flow abilities of powders and granular materials evidenced from dynamical tap density measurement

Powder Technology

Volumn 235, Issue , 2013, Pages 842-852

  Traina, K ^a,b   Cloots, R ^a   Bontempi, S ^a   Lumay, G ^a   Vandewalle, N ^a   Boschini, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Galephar sa   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aeration; Bulk powder; Cohesion; Compressibility; Flow ability; Packed powders

Indexed keywords

AIR VOLUMES; BULK POWDERS; COHESION; DYNAMICAL STATE; FLOW ABILITY; FLOW PROPERTIES; FREE FLOWING; GRANULAR PACKINGS; GRANULAR SYSTEM; INTERGRANULAR; OPTIMAL PACKING; PACKED POWDER; POWDER BED; POWDER FLOW; RANDOM PACKING; STATIC STATE; TAP DENSITY; YTTRIUM STABILIZED ZIRCONIA;

ADHESION; COMPRESSIBILITY; HYDRATED LIME; OPTIMIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; POWDERS; SUGARS; WATER AERATION; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIA;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

CALCIUM OXIDE; POLYSTYRENE; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIUM OXIDE;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COHESION; COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DYNAMICAL TAP DENSITY; DYNAMICS; GRAIN; GRANULAR RELAXATION INDEX; GRANULE; KINETICS; MATERIAL STATE; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; POWDER FLOW; PREDICTION; STATIC STATE;

EID: 84871524935     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2012.11.039     Document Type: Article

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