Experimental Investigation and Modelling of the Droplet Size in a DN300 Stirred Vessel at High Disperse Phase Content Using a Telecentric Shadowgraphic Probe

In this work, steady-state droplet size distributions in a DN300 stirred batch vessel with Rushton turbine impeller are investigated using an insertion probe based on the telecentric transmitted light principle. High-resolution extracted from images convolutional neural network for image-analysis order to investigate influence of speed and phase fraction (up 50 vol.-%). addition, Sauter mean diameters were calculated correlated two semi-empirical approaches, while standard approach only accomplished 5.7% accuracy, correlation Laso et al. provided relative error 4.0%. exponent Weber number was fitted experimental data work yielding slightly different value than theoretical (−0.6), which allows better representation low coalescence tendency system, is usually neglected procedures.