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International Journal of Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJASEAT)-IJASEAT |
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Issue |
Volume-6, Issue-4, Spl. Iss-2 ( Dec, 2018 ) | |||||||||
Paper Title |
Application of Discrete Element Simulation for Enhancement of Particle Mixing in V-Blenders | |||||||||
Author Name |
Foad Farivar, Hu Zhang, Zhao Feng Tian | |||||||||
Affilition |
School of Chemical Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering ,The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia | |||||||||
Pages |
12-15 | |||||||||
Abstract |
V-blenders are one of the most common industrial tumbling blenders and the understanding of the particle mixing in V-blenders is limited. In this study discrete element method (DEM) is employed to simulate the mixing of both spherical and non-spherical particles in V-blenders. The simulation results are compared to experimental data in literature with a good qualitative agreement. A new configuration is proposed to address poor axial mixing in V-blenders. The simulation results show that the proposed configuration increases the axial mixing efficiency. Index Terms - DEM, Particle mixing, simulation, V-blender. | |||||||||
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