Understanding the varying discharge rates of lognormal particle size distributions from a hopper using the discrete element method

• Main Authors: Zhao, Ya, Yang, Shiliang, Zhang, Liangqi, Chew, Jia Wei
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering; Discrete Element Method; Hopper Discharge Rate
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151304
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The focus of this study is on understanding the varying discharge rates of lognormal particle size distributions (PSDs) with the same mean particle diameter. Discrete element method (DEM) is used to simulate lognormal PSDs with the same arithmetic mean of the particle diameter of 5 mm but varying PS...