Heat and moisture migration within a porous urea particle bed

Urea is an important nitrogen fertilizer for plant nutrition, but is very susceptible to moisture sorption and caking even at low moisture contents, e.g. 0.25% w/w. When urea particles adsorb moisture followed by drying, crystal bridges form between urea particles. For particles in a bed, this proce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nie, Xiaodong Rachel
Other Authors: Zhu, Jesse
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Saskatchewan 2010
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Online Access:http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-05072010-140128/