Description
For process operators throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), effectively and efficiently mixing and blending powders and other bulk solids presents many engineering challenges. This guidebook addresses selecting and specifying the right mixers and blenders, handling physical and chemical properties of powders, and ensuring worker and environmental safety during operation and maintenance.
This selection of practical tutorial-style articles provides actionable guidance for process engineers and other technical professionals throughout the CPI. Topics cover mixer and blender options, as well as targeted engineering recommendations for managing safety risks such as dust explosions.
All articles are delivered in a PDF format, originally published in Chemical Engineering magazine between 2009 and 2020. Volume 1 of this series, “Mixing & Blending: Volume 1 – Combining Liquids,” is available separately.
Features & Benefits
- Practical guidance for selecting and specifying mixers and blenders for powders and bulk solids
- Engineering tips for improving solids handling, dispersion, and mixing efficiency
- Strategies to minimize risk of dust explosions and improve plant safety
- Methods for sampling, characterization, and understanding powder flow behavior
- Insights into lifecycle costs, materials selection, and equipment optimization
- Actionable, tutorial-style articles from Chemical Engineering magazine
Audience
- Process engineers and chemical engineers in the CPI
- Plant and operations managers overseeing powder handling systems
- Maintenance and reliability engineers in bulk solids processes
- R&D professionals developing new powder or bulk solids processes
- Engineering consultants and designers working with mixers and blenders
Articles Include
- Taking Representative Samples in Solids Handling Processes
- Selection of Silos for Bulk Storage
- Agglomeration Processes
- Cost Engineering: Equipment Purchase Costs
- Commercializing Process Technologies
- Incorporate Floating Solids Into Liquids
- Disperse Difficult Solids
- Lifecycle Costs for Capital Equipment in the CPI
- Automating Your Weigh Batching System
- Materials Selection in the CPI
- Guarding Against Fires and Explosions Caused by Self-Heating
- Blender Selection and Avoidance of Post-Blender Segregation
- Blending, Sampling and Segregation
- Solids Discharge: Characterizing Powder and Bulk Solids Behavior
- Fundamentals of Bulk Solids Mixing and Blending
- Selecting, Handling and Maintaining IBCs
Type: PDF Guidebook
Pages: 87
