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The mixing of powders and granular materials is a common and significant operation in the processing industries but we know surprisingly little about how equipment works and how performance is affected by particle properties. Such considerations gave rise to a substantial body of work in the 1970s conducted largely at the University of Oxford. Fundamental issues in mixing have been discussed at some length previously (Bridgwater, 1976). Here the overall findings from the group, led by the author of this chapter, are presented.
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Bridgwater, J. (1994). Mixing and Segregation Mechanisms in Particle Flow. In: Mehta, A. (eds) Granular Matter. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4290-1_6
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