The effect of off-wall clearance of a side-entering impeller on the mixing of pulp suspensions in a cylindrical stock chest

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 985-995

  Bhole, Manish R ^a   Hui, Leo K ^a   Gomez, Clara ^a   Bennington, Chad P J ^a   Dumont, Guy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cavern formation; Electrical resistance tomography; Impeller off wall clearance; Mixing; Pulp fibre suspensions; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW IMPELLERS; AXIAL FORCES; BATCH OPERATION; CAVERN FORMATION; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; CYLINDRICAL STOCK; DYNAMIC MIXING; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; HARDWOOD PULP; LABORATORY SCALE; MASS CONCENTRATION; MIXING QUALITY; PULP FIBRE SUSPENSIONS; PULP STOCKS; PULP SUSPENSION; SIZE VARIATION; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; VESSEL WALLS;

AXIAL FLOW; CAVES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MIXING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TOMOGRAPHY; YIELD STRESS;

IMPELLERS;

EID: 80052778579     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.20503     Document Type: Article

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