Educational Resources for Particle Technology

Rheology

Technical Areas: rheology, slurry flow, mass flow monitoring, power requirements for pumps and mixers, rheometers (viscometers), visco-elasticity

Latest changes: 02Jul29 - Rheology of Continuous Phases / 03May12 - Steffe's book, drop obsolete Heyward link / 05Feb21 - Iveson lab demo / 07Apr18 - reformat /

TOPIC AREAS
The Significance of PT
Formation from Gas
Formation from Liquid
Comminution, Attrition
Size Enlargement
Particle Physics
Particle Characterization:
   Non-Optical Methods
   Optical Methods
Storage / Discharge:
   Mechanics: wall stress
   Dynamics: flow
Pneumatic Conveying
Fluidized Bed
Mixing and De-mixing
Separation by Size
P./Gas Separation
P./Liquid Separation
Dispersion in Fluids
Rheology
Reaction
Heating, Drying
Safety
Simulation, Modeling
Specific Applications
ERPT Home Page

Web Tutorials (not ERPT)

Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering (2nd ed.), by James F. Steffe (Michigan State Univ.) is a 428 page book which may be printed and used for any nonprofit endeavor in the public and private sectors.
-- www.egr.msu.edu/~steffe/freebook/offer.html

Rheology of Continuous Phases
          by Sebastien Dartevelle (Univ. of Michigan)
An extensive Web site called The Granular Volcano Group. The tutorial on rheology of continuous phases is at http://www.granular.org/viscous_stress.html, with sections on
      I. Introduction: Have you said viscosity?
      II. Stress view of viscosity
      III. Granular kinetic view of viscosity
      IV. Viscosity and tensors
      V. Bulk viscosity, shear viscosity, and second coefficient of viscosity


Web Sites of Educational Interest

Single and Multiphase Flow in Fractured Media
          by Arturo Alejandro Keller (Univ CA at Santa Barbara)
This 1996 PhD thesis describes in detail the physical basis for describing the flow of Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPLs) into water-saturated fractured bedrock and clay layers
-- http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/~keller/thesis/thesis.html

Non-Web Resources

Techniques in Rheological Measurements: Fundamentals and Applications,
          by Dr. Abbas A. Zaman (Univ. of Florida)
-- see ERPT's list of non-Web resources

In-Plant Slurry Pumping Systems
          by HyproTech
Several short courses are offered
-- see ERPT's list of non-Web resources

Explanations and Disclaimers
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