Drop Formation from Impeller with Static Mixers.

Solid-Solid Mixing with Static Mixers

Static mixers are in-line devices, which consist of motionless mixing elements, inserted in the given length of the pipe. Homogenization is attained by using the flow energy of the material to be mixed. The mixing effect depends on the continuous separation, distribution, and reunion of particles in the stream of material. There are various element designs available for mixing liquids and they ...

Biodiesel Production Using Static Mixers

Static mixers, devices used for mixing immiscible liquids in a compact configuration, were found to be effective in carrying out initial transesterification reactions of canola oil and methanol. The objective of this study was to explore the possibilities of using static mixers as a continuous-flow reactor for biodiesel production. Biodiesel (canola methyl ester) was produced under varying cond...

Suspending Insoluble Solids in Waste Tanks with Shrouded Axial Impeller Mixers

Analysis and Optimization of Kenics Static Mixers

The mapping approach is applied to study the distributive mixing in the, widely industrially used, Kenics static mixer. The flexibility of the mapping method makes it possible to study and compare thousands of different mixer layouts and perform optimization with respect to macroscopic homogenization efficiency and interface generation. In the paper two different designs of the mixer are invest...

Novel Objective Functions for Static Mixers

Most static mixers are designed to maximize radial mixing to achieve compositional and thermal homogeneity. Flow inverters maximize heat transfer. Axial mixers that closely approximate an exponential distribution of residence times have been devised as well. More recent papers describe static mixers for surge dampening in industrial swing-cycle processes (Smith, Graham, and Palamara, 2006). An ...