The effect of bottom roughness on the minimum agitator speed required to just fully suspend particles in a stirred vessel

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 85, Issue 5 A, 2007, Pages 685-690

  Ghionzoli, A ^a,b   Bujalski, W ^b   Grenville, R K ^c   Nienow, A W ^b   Sharpe, R W ^b   Paglianti, Alessandro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bottom roughness; Kolmogoroff scale; Mixing; Particle suspension; Setting velocity; K

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; IMPELLERS; MIXING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

KOLMOGOROFF SCALE; PARTICLE SUSPENSION; STIRRED TANK REACTORS; VESSEL BOTTOM ROUGHNESS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CHEMICAL REACTORS; IMPELLERS; MIXING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 34250800356     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/cherd06152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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