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agglomeration

The clustering of activities or people at specific points or areas; for example, at a route centre. Firms or individuals that cluster together can often share facilities and services, resulting in lower costs (agglomeration economies, including economy of scale).



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For resins that tend to agglomerate, the Centri-sifter centrifugal separator can be incorporated in the system for continuous delumping of the material.
Dispersive mixing is governed by a competition between the hydrodynamic forces acting on the particulate agglomerate and the cohesive forces holding that agglomerate together.
By their very nature, agglomerate structures have higher surface areas than spherical particles with the same equivalent diameter and are generally less dense.
 
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