Removal of material from the surface due to particle impact is typically referred to as erosive wear. Impact erosion involves many parameters and several wear mechanisms. In the present study, sandblast type erosion tester was used to investigate the influence of particle size, impact angle and expo...

Monitoring of scale progression in a pneumatic conveying system operating in a metal production plant was conducted during a five-month long monitoring period. A combination of an acoustic monitoring method and a laser imaging method provided detailed information of gradual scale growth in a test pi...

Scale formation in pneumatic conveying systems is a major industrial challenge. The underlying scale formation mechanisms can be intricate as they often involve a combination of several mutually enhancing binding forces and can be affected by a number of different factors. A non-intrusive monitoring...

In this study, the feasibility of two techniques for real-time monitoring of scale deposition thickness were evaluated. Traditional pressure drop measurements and a variant of the heat pulse monitoring technique which was developed in this study were tested and compared in a lab scale experiment. Me...

The main objectives of this study were to quantify the classification efficiency of a binary mixture of two different particle types and to demonstrate that CPFD can be used to simulate the main features of the classification process. A lab-scale cylindrical fluidized bed (8.4 cm inner diameter, 150...