Macro-instabilities of a Suspension in an Axially Agitated Mixing Tank

CFD Investigation of Hydrodynamics in an Industrial Suspension Polymerization Mixing Reactor

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 ...

Development of the Design Guidelines Using CFD Technology for a Particles Suspension Mixing Tank

— Seven important variables having profound impact on the ability of a mixing tank to suspend particles have been investigated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology. The results obtained from this study can be applied across a broad range of industries such as the chemical, biochemical, petrochemical and mineral processing industries. Finally, a design template incorporating the o...

Heat Transfer Correlation for Two Phase Flow in a Mixing Tank

Mixing tanks equipped with mechanical stirrer are broadly applied in chemical and petrochemical industries, due to their variety of industrial process requirements. In this study, helical single blade mixer was designed applying CATIA and then mixing of fluid and solid particles, in a tank with this agitator was examined by OpenFOAM. For velocity distribution in the mixing tank, continuity, mom...

Comparative PIV and LDA studies of Newtonian and non-Newtonian flows in an agitated tank

The paper presents results of an experimental study of the fluid velocity field in a stirred tank equipped with a Prochem Maxflo T (PMT) type impeller which was rotating at a constant frequency of N = 4.1 or 8.2 s-1 inducing transitional (Re = 499 or 1307) or turbulent (Re = 2.43 × 104) flow of the fluid. The experiments were performed for a Newtonian fluid (water) and a non-Newtonian fluid (0....