Degree Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
1985
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Abstract
A distance-transition Markov process was assumed to govern the movement of particles through a gravity separation table. Seven experiments were performed in which data were collected for a gravity separation table that was operated with particle mixtures consisting of soybeans and soybean splits and particle mixtures consisting of soybeans and 3/16 inch polypropelene balls. Stationary and nonstationary Markov models were fitted to the laboratory data. Particle distributions and particle pathways were successfully predicted by using an initial distribution of particles and the transition probabilities which defined the Markov processes.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-5646
Publisher
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University, http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/
Copyright Owner
Carmine Carey Balascio
Copyright Date
1985
Language
en
Proquest ID
AAI8514370
File Format
application/pdf
File Size
246 pages
Recommended Citation
Balascio, Carmine Carey, "Probabilistic modeling of particle movement through a gravity separator " (1985). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 7818.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/7818
