“…In the present work, however, the MC method is used as a scaled-down virtual spray fluidized bed granulator rather than as a solver of the PBE. A similar approach has recently been presented by Terrazas-Velarde, Tsotsas (2009), Terrazas-Velarde et al (2011a), Terrazas-Velarde, Peglow, and Tsotsas (2011b) and Dernedde, Peglow, and Tsotsas (2011). In our work, micro-processes such as the collision of particles, deposition of droplets, drying of droplets, and the dissipation of kinetic energy according to Stokes criterion are modeled as in Terrazas-Velarde et al (2011b).…”