POWDER MIXING - SOME PRACTICAL RULES APPLIED TO AGITATED SYSTEMS

Investigations into powder mixing in mixing vessels are surveyed, concentrating on practices used in different industries to distinguish this review from that given recently by Fan et al. [1]. The essential points to be examined for the treatment of solids mixing are reviewed and the definitions of the quality of a mixture, the mixing mechanisms, the possibilities for the choice of solid mixer, the experimental assessment of homogeneity and mixing indexes and the numerical simulation of mixing processes are reported.