In the formation of agglomerates, small particles tend to aggregate in order to reduce the total free energy of the system. Even when the individual particles can be treated as spheres of uniform size, depending on the process and involved forces the agglomerates can show some kind of particle orientation. This paper uses digital image processing techniques for obtaining particle orientation distribution of two-dimensional simulated agglomerates. These simulations were carried out using a computer graphics environment with solid modeling extension. The use of two-dimensional models instead of three-dimensional ones is an alternative to reduce the long computacional times involved in the analysis of complex real systems. Despite being simple, in principle, very important information can be obtained from two-dimensional systems and directly applied to real three-dimensional cases.
