Addressing key issues in the instrumentation of powder handling processes

This up-to-date volume serves as an excellent source of new ideas for designing on-line instruments, as well as a helpful guide for understanding and applying measurement principles.

Describing physical and chemical principles in clear, simple language, Powder and Bulk Solids Handling Processes provides substantial background material that lists related industrial fields and the physical representation of powder properties.

It focuses on instrumentation, reviewing state variables in powder processes, discusses the sampling of particles from a powder bed or suspension flow as a basic method for evaluating powder handling processes, and presents incisive information on various methods and instruments used for on-line measurement of powder flow rate, particle concentration in suspension, level of powder in storage vessels, and more.

Complete with references, equations, illustrations, and tables, this volume is essential reading for chemical, mechanical, systems, ceramic, and civil engineers, instrumentation engineers in powder and bulk solid processes, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in chemical and mechanical engineering.