Mixing is one of the crucial unit operations adopted in various chemical, biochemical, and food processes. Power consumption plays a key role in the proper design and scale‐up of mixing apparatuses. The actual research goal is to establish suitable ...
Mixing is one of the crucial unit operations adopted in various chemical, biochemical, and food processes. Power consumption plays a key role in the proper design and scale‐up of mixing apparatuses. The actual research goal is to establish suitable correlations for power consumption prediction in different types of liquid batches based on the broad experimental dataset. This work, broadening the database just being built, aims at the description of the effect of impeller type, gas superficial velocity, impeller diameter/tank diameter ratio, tank diameter, and impeller rotational frequency in the slightly viscous batch.
To successfully design a gas‐liquid contractor, the impeller power consumption should be predicted fairly accurately. An innovative approach for the prediction of power consumption under gassed condition in mechanically agitated gas‐liquid contractors is described. On the base of the measured dataset, the recommended correlations can be applied to scale up and design industrial apparatuses.