Particle Technology and Engineering: An Engineer's Guide to Particles and Powders: Fundamentals and Computational Approaches

by Jonathan P.K. Seville, Chuan-Yu Wu

Overview

Particle Technology and Engineering presents the basic knowledge and fundamental concepts that are needed by engineers dealing with particles and powders. The book provides a comprehensive reference and introduction to the topic, ranging from single particle characterization to bulk powder properties, from particle-particle interaction to particle-fluid interaction, from fundamental mechanics to advanced computational mechanics for particle and powder systems.

The content focuses on fundamental concepts, mechanistic analysis and computational approaches. The first six chapters present basic information on properties of single particles and powder systems and their characterisation (covering the fundamental characteristics of bulk solids (powders) and building an understanding of density, surface area, porosity, and flow), as well as particle-fluid interactions, gas-solid and liquid-solid systems, with applications in fluidization and pneumatic conveying. The last four chapters have an emphasis on the mechanics of particle and powder systems, including the mechanical behaviour of powder systems during storage and flow, contact mechanics of particles, discrete element methods for modelling particle systems,and finite element methods for analysing powder systems.

This thorough guide is beneficial to undergraduates in chemical and other types of engineering, to chemical and process engineers in industry, and early stage researchers. It also provides a reference to experienced researchers on mathematical and mechanistic analysis of particulate systems, and on advanced computational methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080983370
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	05/20/2016
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Bulk solids Characterization 3. Particle Characterization 4. Particles in fluids 5. Gas-Solid systems 6. Liquid-Solid Systems 7. Mechanics of Bulk Solids 8. Particle-Particle Interaction 9. Discrete Element Methods 10. Finite Element Methods

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From the Publisher

An essential guide for all engineers working with particles and powders, which make up over 50% of all chemical products

Editorial Reviews

"The book gives the reader a full but fairly approachable overview of the fundamentals of particle technology, reporting the current state of this field and providing perspectives on future challenges. A good overview of particle characterisation, the link between the microscopic and macroscopic properties and the future role of computational methods (DEM and FEM) in particle technology is provided in this book." —Johnson Matthey Technology Review

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