Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Vol.85, No.3, 264-271, 2013
The Fokker-Planck Equation - A Way to Describe Axial Transport and Mixing Processes in a Tube Reactor
One way to explain the mechanism of powder mixing is the Fokker-Planck equation. The equation comprises two decisive parameters, the transport coefficient U that depends on the active transport of the mixing device and the dispersion coefficient D which describes the mobility of the single particles. The idea is to calculate the dispersion and transport coefficient by using the powder characteristics. To verify this assumption, measurements with different components and different rotation speeds were made.