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Cereal killers – the need for particle size and shape information in grain technology
A. RAWLE (1) (1) Malvern Instruments Inc., Westborough, MA, U.S.A..

Every year serious injuries and deaths result from poor flowability of grains in silos. These tragedies arise from the grain size, shape, and silo construction and flow properties. This presentation summarizes the technical routes available to characterize grain size and shape including a review of the difficulties of representative sampling.

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