Catalyst Engineering Technology: Fundamentals And Applications

This book gives a comprehensive explanation of what governs the breakage of extruded materials, and whattechniques are used to measure it. The breakage during impact aka collision is explained using basic laws ofnature allowing readers to determine the handling severity of catalyst manufacturing equipment and theseverity of entire plants. This information can then be used to improve on the architecture of existing plantsand how to design grass-roots plants. The book begins with a summary of particle forming techniques in the particle technology industry. It covers extrusion technology in more detail since extrusion is one of the workhorses for particlemanufacture. A section is also dedicated on how to describe transport and chemical reaction in such particulates for of coursetheir final use. It presents the fundamentals of the study of breakage by relating basic laws in different fields (mechanics andphysics) and this leads to two novel dimensionless groups tha...