Particle Size Measurement

Allen, Terence

ISBN 10: 041213490X / ISBN 13: 9780412134906

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1975

About this Item

Powder Technology Series. 23.5 x 16 cm., xvii, 454 pp. The book is covered in green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. CONDITION. VG+/ G. A clean tight copy. The dust jacket is rubbed along the top edge, and has a tear bottom front near the spine. Library marks and labels on spine, free end paper, title page and contents page. The dust jacket spine has a window through to the class mark label on the spine of the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Particle Size Measurement
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041213490X
• ISBN 13: 9780412134906
• Binding: Original Cloth
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Engineering

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Synopsis

Powder technology is a subject in its own right, and powder characterization is central to an understanding of this discipline. In the eight years since the printing of the third edition of Particle Size Measurement there have been two big changes in my life. After thirty years of academia I have returned to industry, and after a lifetime in Great Britain I have emigrated to the United States. In industry the initial demand is to relate powder properties to product performance and then to maintain powder consistency. This requires on-line or rapid off-line analysis which, in turn, has led to the demand for a whole range of new instruments whose primary function is process monitoring. Historically, chemical engineering courses have concentrated on the be­ haviour of fluids, and engineers enter industry relatively unschooled in the subject of powder behaviour . Yet, when my colleagues Reg Davies and John Boughton surveyed three thousand Dupont products, they discovered that 80% involved powder at some stage of their manufacture. The results of this survey illustrate the need for more training in this key subject. This edition reflects the changing image of powder characterization towards in-process size analysis. Hence the chapter covering on-line analysis has been largely re-written. Apart from this, I have expanded certain sections and describe the new instruments that have been introduced since the last edition.