Solids Handling Plant
Abstract
While much of traditional chemical engineering focusses on fluids processing, solids handling has always been very important in the process industries, from heavy minerals processing through solid polymer production to Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) handling in pharmaceuticals. Solids handling plant, as defined here, includes process equipment, and transportation between processes. However, plant layout must take into account the total operation of all solids storage, processing, and transport activities from feedstock supply to product dispatch.
Keywords
Solids handling; screening; inertial separation; size reduction; comminution
28.1 General
While much of traditional chemical engineering ...
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