Monday, November 5, 2007: 3:30 PM-6:00 PM
M - Snowbird Room (Marriott Salt Lake City-Downtown)

Topical I: Pharmaceutical Engineering for the 21^st Century (TI)

#129 - Mixing and Segregation of Particulates (TI019)
Mixing and segregation phenomena occur in most systems of powdered or granular solids and can have a significant influence on their behavior. In addition, the deliberate mixing of solids is an essential operation in the production of industrial powders or granular products constituted from different ingredients. Since product performance depends on blend homogeneity, the consequences of variability can be severe. Despite the enormous importance of solids mixing, our understanding of mixers, and mixing and segregation phenomena leaves much to be desired. For this session, we therefore seek both experimental and theoretical papers on fundamentals, scale up and modeling of mixing, process applications and design, and monitoring and instrumentation. We particularly encourage submissions relevant to industrial practice.
Chair:Joseph J. McCarthy
CoChair:Otute Akiti
CoSponsor(s):Pharmaceuticals (15b)
3:30 PMFlow Structure Mapping Of Segregating Granular Mixtures Using Radioactive Particle Tracking
Jocelyn Doucet, Francois Bertrand, Jamal Chaouki
3:50 PMMixing Of Nanoparticles By Magnetically Assisted Impact Mixing Technique
James V. Scicolone, Alexandre Ermoline, Ryan Barrow, Rajesh Dave
4:10 PMSegregation of Cohesive Particles during Hopper Discharge
Anshu Anand, Jennifer S. Curtis, Carl R. Wassgren, Bruno C. Hancock
4:30 PMEliminating Segregation In Free-Surface Flows Of Particles
Deliang Shi, Watson Vargas, Joseph J. McCarthy
4:50 PMPowder Flow Induced By Rough-Surface Moving Walls: Concentration Profile Of A Binary Powder Mixture
Luis Guillermo Obregon Quiñones, Carlos Velázquez Figueroa
5:10 PMStudy of the Feedframe Effect on Particle Size Distribution
Rafael Mendez-Roman, Fernando J. Muzzio, Carlos Velazquez
5:30 PMThe Mechanism behind Axial Segregation of Granules in a Horizontal Rotating Drum
Marleen M. H. D. Arntz, Wouter. K. Den Otter, Wim. J. Briels

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