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Executive Summary
Mixing (and segregation) play a vital role in several industrial processes. In the pharmaceutical
industry, the e.ectiveness of the drug is directly related to the mixture of active
ingredient and excipient. Central to the low efficiency (< 5%) reported in mineral grinding
processes is the inability to control the relative mix of grinding balls and small rocks in
the high shear zones where most of the energy is dissipated. The canonical rotating drum
system encountered in the mineral processing, food and pharmaceutical industry is well
known to exhibit axial and...
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