Edited by
A. Levy
Christopher Kalman, MSc MBChB FFOM FRCP(Glas), Director of Occupational Health and Safety Services, NHS Lothian, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
Description
This handbook presents comprehensive coverage of the technology for conveying and handling particulate solids. Each chapter covers a different
topic and contains both fundamentals and applications. Usually, each chapter, or a topic within a chapter, starts with one of the review
papers. Chapter 1 covers the characterization of the particulate materials. Chapter 2 covers the behaviour of particulate materials during
storage, and presents recent developments in storage and feeders design and performance. Chapter 3 presents fundamental studies of particulate
flow, while Chapters 4 and 5 present transport solutions, and the pitfalls of pneumatic, slurry, and capsule conveying. Chapters 6, 7
and 8 cover both the fundamentals and development of processes for particulate solids, starting from fluidisation and drying, segregation
and mixing, and size-reduction and enlargement. Chapter 9 presents environmental aspects and the classification of the particulate materials
after they have been handled by one of the above-mentioned processes. Finally, Chapter 10 covers applications and developments of measurement
techniques that are the heart of the analysis of any conveying or handling system.
Included in series
Handbook of Powder Technology
Audience:
For engineers, researchers and students within chemical, pharmaceutical, food and mining industries.
