Applying rotary jet heads for mixing and mass transfer in a forced recirculation tank reactor system

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 58, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3877-3890

  Nordkvist, Mikkel ^a   Grotkjær, Thomas ^a   Hummer, Jan S ^b   Villadsen, John ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ISO MIX A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mass transfer; Mixing; Power input; Recirculation reactor; Rotary jet head; Scale up

Indexed keywords

JETS; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; NOZZLES;

FORCED RECIRCULATION;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

CIRCULATION; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; REACTOR; ROTATING BLADE ROW;

EID: 0141573232     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(03)00250-1     Document Type: Article

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