Agglomeration during spray drying : Airborne clusters or breakage at the walls?
- Submitting institution
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Heriot-Watt University
(joint submission with University of Edinburgh)
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 24480321
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.ces.2016.12.033
- Title of journal
- Chemical Engineering Science
- Article number
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- First page
- 284
- Volume
- 162
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0009-2509
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This was the first published analysis of energy efficiency in swirl spray drying towers. The work outlines a new operation strategy using the angular momentum of the air flow to break coarse agglomerates and improve capacity and energy consumption. The benefits led P&G to undertake further work (DOI:10.1080/07373937.2019.1626878) and adopt it as best practice for the optimisation of detergent spray drying towers. [Contact: Former Principal Engineer, P&G] It is regarded as state-of-the-art in counter-current spray drying (e.g. Australia), taught to industrialists and referred to in specialised books (https://doi.org/10.1201/9780367262037-5). [Contact: Former Principal Engineer, P&G]
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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