Flow and mixing characteristics of σ-type plate static mixer with splitting and inverse recombination

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1447-1453

  Ohkawa, Kazuo ^a   Nakamoto, Takashi ^b   Izuka, Yoshiharu ^b   Hirata, Yushi ^b   Inoue, Yoshiro ^b  

^a ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFD; Micromixer; Mixing; Split and recombine; Static mixer

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; IODINE; MIXERS (MACHINERY); PRESSURE DROP; RHENIUM; SODIUM;

CFD; CFD ANALYSES; DECOLOURISATION; FLOW BEHAVIOURS; FLOW DIRECTIONS; FLUID PARTICLES; FRICTION FACTORS; INVERSE PROPORTIONS; MICROMIXER; MIXING CHARACTERISTICS; MIXING ELEMENTS; PLUG FLOWS; PRESSURE LOSSES; RESIDENCE TIMES; SHALLOW CHANNELS; SODIUM THIOSULFATES; SPLIT-AND-RECOMBINE; STATIC MIXER; STATIC MIXERS; TWO FLUIDS;

MIXING;

EID: 56849110388     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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