Handbook of Conveying and Handling of Particulate Solids

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.