One promising technology in the field of residue valorization is the pyrolytic conversion of
biomass to biochar. There are a lot of proven technologies for this task, with many of them …

While continuous manufacturing (CM) of pharmaceutical solid-based drug products has
been shown to be advantageous for improving the product quality and process efficiency in …

Pyrolysis of biomass in a rotary kiln finds application both as an intermediate step in
multistage gasification as well as a process on its own for the production of biochar. In this …

A rotary kiln is core equipment in cement calcination. Significant time delay, time-varying,
and nonlinear characteristics cause challenges in the advance process control and …

Modeling conductive heat transfer from rotary drum walls to a particle bed via discrete
element method simulations, three time scales were determined: 1) the characteristic …

Despite the humongous volume of literature aiming to present the synthesis of innovative,
more selective, stable, and active solid catalysts, the catalysts that come to be used at the …

Heat transfer in granular flows plays an important role in particulate material processing
such as food production, pharmaceuticals and biorenewable energy production. Better …

The technical feasibility of electrifying the calcination process in a precalciner cement kiln
system was assessed by studying different electrification concepts. Resistance-based …

Rotary kilns are widely used in industry to perform several different operations. When
numerically modeling such systems, a common simplification is to neglect the residence …

Three‐dimensional modeling of the solid motion in a lab‐scale rotating drum has been
conducted via the discrete element method. After validating the simulated results with …