Agitation of Herschel-Bulkley fluids with the Scaba-anchor coaxial mixers

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 761-777

  Pakzad, Leila ^a   Ein Mozaffari, Farhad ^a   Upreti, Simant R ^a   Lohi, Ali ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coaxial mixer; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Mixing; Non Newtonian fluids; Power consumption; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; FLUID RHEOLOGY; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY FLUIDS; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY MODEL; MIXING PERFORMANCE; NEW CORRELATIONS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMPELLERS; MIXING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOUS FLOW; YIELD STRESS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 84877616245     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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