Experimental and Numerical Studies on Mixing of Yield-Pseudoplastic Fluids with a Coaxial Mixer

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 200, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1553-1577

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

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coaxial impeller; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Electrical resistance tomography (ERT); Flow pattern; Mixing time; Power consumption

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY MODEL; MIXING TIME; PSEUDOPLASTIC FLUID; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; SPECIFIC POWER CONSUMPTION; STAINLESS STEEL ELECTRODE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLOW PATTERNS; IMPELLERS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); TOMOGRAPHY;

MIXING;

EID: 84879993793     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: 15635201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2012.751380     Document Type: Article

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