Towards a mechanistic model for slurry transport in tumbling mills

Autor: Indresan Govender, Gary B. Tupper, Aubrey Mainza
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Minerals Engineering. 24:230-235
ISSN: 0892-6875
Popis: A new modelling approach to slurry transport in dynamic beds based upon combining space and time-averaged Navier–Stokes equations with a new type of cell model is described. The resulting Ergun-like equation is used to correlate pressure drop with time-averaged distributions of the porosity, superficial fluid velocity and solids velocity for data derived from positron-emission-particle-tracking (PEPT) experiments in a scaled industrial tumbling mill fitted with lifter bars, pulp lifters and a discharge grate and run with particles and re-circulating slurry.
Databáze: OpenAIRE