Advantages of the hollow (concave) turbine for multi-phase agitation under intense operating conditions

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 5529-5543

  Cooke, Mike ^a   Heggs, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agitator hydrodynamics; Gas liquid; Hollow blade turbines; Mechanically stirred tanks; Solid suspension; Three phase dispersions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DISPERSIONS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONCAVE HOLLOW BLADE AGITATORS; DISC TURBINES; DISPERSING GASES; HOLLOW BLADE TURBINES (HBTS); RADIAL TURBINES;

TURBINES;

GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; TURBINE;

EID: 22244452317     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.05.018     Document Type: Article

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