Mixing in industrial Rushton turbine-agitated reactors under aerated conditions

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 373-386

  Guillard, Fabrice ^a   Trägårdh, Christian ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aeration; Concentration gradients; Mixing time; Multiple impellers; Rushton turbine

Indexed keywords

GASES; IMPELLERS; MIXING; SEWAGE AERATION; SEWAGE TANKS; TURBINES;

TURBINE-AGITATED REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

AERATION; AGITATION; MIXING; REACTOR; TURBINE;

EID: 0037406511     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(02)00058-2     Document Type: Article

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