Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Surrey
Article title
A coupled DEM/CFD analysis of the effect of air on powder flow during die filling
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
AIChE Journal
Article number
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Volume number
55
Issue number
1
First page of article
49
ISSN of journal
15475905
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
Die filling speed in pharmaceutical manufacture is limited by flow of the pre-compacted solids into the die. This is the first fully 3D model of the process, for which a purpose-built code was assembled incorporating physically-realistic Discrete Element Modelling of the solids interactions, including cohesion, with Computational Fluid Mechanics for the gas. The code is now in use with Pfizer to improve equipment design for pharmaceutical production.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
