Characterization of Mixing in a Stirred Tank by Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (P.L.I.F.)

A Study on Liquid-liquid Mixing in a Stirred Tank with a 6-Blade Rushton Turbine

The turbulent flow field generated in a baffled stirred tank was computed by large eddy simulation (LED) and the flow field was developed using the Sliding Mesh (SM) approach. In this CFD study, mixing times and power number have been determined for a vessel agitated by a 6-blade Rushton turbine. The predicted results were compared with the published experimental data. The satisfactory results ...

Mixing of the Immiscible Liquids in the Entrance Region of a T-Type Chamber Using Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Method

A Laser Induced Fluorescence technique (LIF) has been used to study the mixing behavior of two emerging streams in a T-Type mixing chamber. A mixing index on the basis of digital image light intensities is calculated. It has been shown that averaging over more than 800 images leads to a stable mixing index calculation. Moreover, the effect of equal and un-equal flow rates on the mixing behavior...

Compartment Mixing Model in a Stirred Tank Equipped Dual Rushton Turbine

Mixing Measurements Using Laser Induced Fluorescence

In this article, we present a novel method of quantitatively measuring mixing using laser induced fluorescence. This method is independent of flow and light sheet characteristics. The premise of this work is that molecular level mixing can be quantified through a scalar pH field in an aqueous solution. A two dimensional pH field can be determined in the solution by imaging the laser induced flu...

Experimental measurement and computational fluid dynamics simulation of mixing in a stirred tank: a review

Introduction Mixing in stirred tanks is driven by the impeller-generated convective motion at larger scales, by turbulent transfer at smaller scales and diffusion at molecular scales. Smith reported that the lack of a fundamental understanding of the processes in stirred vessels leads to losses in the order of US$10 billion per year due to non-optimal energy utilisation. Thus, there is a need t...