Modelling chute delivery of grains in a food-sorting process

The whole of the thesis is motivated by a particular problem from the food-sorting industry in which grains of food, typically rice, flow down chutes. As they fall down the chute, the grains form a rapidly moving mono-layer. This project starts with a discrete model treating individual grains based...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellis, Andrew Shaw
Published: University College London (University of London) 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498494