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An experimentally validated DEM study of powder mixing in a paddle blade mixer
- Source :
- Pantaleev, S, Yordanova, S, Janda, A, Marigo, M & Ooi, J 2017, ' An experimentally validated DEM study of powder mixing in a paddle blade mixer ', Powder Technology, vol. 311, pp. 287-302 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2016.12.053
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- An investigation on the predictive capabilities of Discrete Element Method simulations of a powder mixing process in a laboratory scale paddle blade mixer is presented. The visco-elasto-plastic frictional adhesive DEM contactmodel of Thakur et al. (2014) was used to represent the cohesive behaviour of an aluminosilicate powder in which the model parameters were determined using experimental flow energy measurements from the FT4powder rheometer. DEM simulations of the mixing process using the contact model parameters were evaluated against the experimental measurements of the mixing rate. The results demonstrated thatwhilst the DEM modelis capable of reproducing the FT4 flow energy of the powder to an excellent agreement, the simulations of the mixing process produced a qualitative agreement on the trend of the mixing rate in the experiments for bothdry andwet powders. The mixingwas under-predicted in the simulations, suggesting that flowenergy measurements alone may not be sufficient for the optimization of a DEM model of powder mixing.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Blade (geometry)
General Chemical Engineering
Rheometer
Flow (psychology)
Mechanical engineering
02 engineering and technology
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Discrete element method
020401 chemical engineering
Aluminosilicate
Paddle
Adhesive
0204 chemical engineering
Composite material
0210 nano-technology
Mixing (physics)
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pantaleev, S, Yordanova, S, Janda, A, Marigo, M & Ooi, J 2017, ' An experimentally validated DEM study of powder mixing in a paddle blade mixer ', Powder Technology, vol. 311, pp. 287-302 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2016.12.053
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4b473b9dcae64343c774e5417c8417de