Experimental investigation of superblend coaxial mixer

Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 797-803

  Farhat, Maya ^a   Fradette, Louis ^a   Horiguchi, Hiro ^b   Yatomi, Ryuichi ^b   Tanguy, Philippe ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SHI Mechanical and Equipment Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blending time; Helical ribbon; Maxblend; Mixing efficiency; Newtonian fluid; Power consumption; Superblend

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; COAXIAL SHAFTS; CORN SYRUP; COUNTER ROTATING; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HELICAL RIBBONS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MIXING PERFORMANCE; MIXING TIME; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NEWTONIANS; POWER CONSUMPTION; TRANSITION REGIMES; WORK FOCUS;

BLENDING; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MINING; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; ROTATION; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 70749105269     PISSN: 00219592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1252/jcej.08we266     Document Type: Article

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