In the article, Huinan Sun and her co-workers from COFCO Research & Engineering (Zhengzhou) Co., Ltd. and Dalian University of Technology investigated the flow characteristics of granular materials in a silo with a central decompression tube using experiments and discrete element methods. A silo with a central decompression tube is more conducive to grain storage and discharge than a silo without a central decompression tube.
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