Power consumption characteristics of an in-line silverson high shear mixer

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1683-1692

  Cooke, M ^a   Rodgers, T L ^a   Kowalski, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

In line rotor stator mixers; Newtonian; Non Newtonian; Power number; Shear rate

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEAT BALANCE; HIGH SHEAR MIXERS; IN-LINE; LIMITED DATA; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN; POWER NUMBERS; ROTOR SPEED; ROTOR-STATOR MIXER; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; TURBULENT REGIME;

MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STATORS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

ROTORS (WINDINGS);

EID: 84857447906     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12703     Document Type: Article

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