Response of wet foam to fibre mixing

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 467, Issue , 2015, Pages 97-106

  Al Qararah, Ahmad M ^a   Hjelt, Tuomo ^a   Koponen, Antti ^a   Harlin, Ali ^a   Ketoja, Jukka A ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Air content; Bubble size; Fibre; Mixing; Wet foam

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMNS; FIBERS; MIXING; SHAFTS (MACHINE COMPONENTS);

AIR CONTENT; BUBBLE SIZE; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; FINE PARTICLE FRACTIONS; GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONS; PROCESS CHARACTERISTICS; ROUGH SURFACES; WET FOAMS;

WOOD;

CELLULOSE;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FIBER; FOAM; MICROSCOPY; MOISTURE; ROTATION; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; SUSPENSION; VISCOSITY; WOOD;

AIR; BUBBLES; FIBERS; FOAM; MIXING;

EID: 84918534558     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2014.11.034     Document Type: Article

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