Measurement and prediction of pressure drop in pneumatic conveying: Effect of particle characteristics, mass loading, and reynolds number

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5090-5098

  Henthorn, Kimberly H ^a   Park, Kinam ^a   Curtis, Jennifer S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICAL PARTICLES; MASS LOADING; PNEUMATIC CONVEYING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MODIFICATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

PRESSURE DROP;

CONVEYING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PNEUMATICS;

EID: 8544225589     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049505e     Document Type: Article

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