Using tomography to assess the efficiency of the coaxial mixers in agitation of yield-pseudoplastic fluids

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 91, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1715-1724

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

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coaxial mixers; Efficiency; Electrical resistance tomography; Mixing time; Non Newtonian fluids; Power consumption

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PARAMETERS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEMS; MIXING PERFORMANCE; MIXING TIME; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PSEUDOPLASTIC FLUID; TRANSITIONAL REGIMES;

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MIXING; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; RHEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOUS FLOW;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 84884975296     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2013.02.027     Document Type: Article

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