TY - JOUR
T1 - Axial Mixing in Rotating Drums using Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Bran as a Model for Solid State Fermentations
AU - Hardin, Matt
AU - Howes, T.
AU - Mitchell, D.A.
AU - Whittaker, A.K.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an easily automated, reliable technique to investigate axial mixing within rotating drums. Moist bran can be clearly differentiated from dry bran using MRI allowing a non-segregating tracer for axial mixing. For a 20-cm diameter drum, the axial dispersion coefficient in the particle bed was 0.51 cm s(-2). Axial dispersion is scale-dependent.
AB - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an easily automated, reliable technique to investigate axial mixing within rotating drums. Moist bran can be clearly differentiated from dry bran using MRI allowing a non-segregating tracer for axial mixing. For a 20-cm diameter drum, the axial dispersion coefficient in the particle bed was 0.51 cm s(-2). Axial dispersion is scale-dependent.
U2 - 10.1023/A:1014843515303
DO - 10.1023/A:1014843515303
M3 - Article
VL - 24
SP - 521
EP - 525
JO - Biotechnology Letters
JF - Biotechnology Letters
SN - 0141-5492
IS - 7
ER -