Mixing and Blending: Volume 2-Combining Powders and Bulk Solids - electronic book

• 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

• 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

DetailsType: PDF GuidebookPages: 87

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