Application of fluorescent PIV and digital image analysis to measure turbulence properties of solid-liquid stirred suspensions

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 573-586

  Unadkat, H ^a   Rielly, C D ^a   Hargrave, G K ^a   Nagy, Z K ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mixing; Multiphase flows; Particle image velocimetry; Phase separation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; LIQUIDS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SEPARATION; TURBOMACHINERY; TURBULENCE; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BULK FLOWS; CONTINUOUS PHASE; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; DISPERSED PHASE; DISSIPATION RATES; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENT PARTICLES; HIGH CONCENTRATIONS; LENGTH SCALE; MEAN VELOCITIES; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PITCHED-BLADE TURBINES; RMS VELOCITIES; SODA-LIME GLASS; SOLID LIQUIDS; SOLID-LIQUID SUSPENSIONS; TURBULENCE LEVELS; TURBULENCE PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE SUPPRESSIONS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGIES; VESSEL WALLS; VOLUMETRIC CONCENTRATIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 61349132932     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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