Modeling of power characteristics for multistage rotor-stator mixers of shear-thinning fluids

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 117, Issue , 2014, Pages 173-182

  Wu, Huashuai ^a,b   Shu, Shuli ^b,c   Yang, Ning ^b   Lian, Guoping ^d   Zhu, Shiping ^d   Liu, Mingyan ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; Metzner Otto concept; Multistage; Rotor stator mixers; Shear thinning fluids

Indexed keywords

EMULSIFICATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTORS (WINDINGS); SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR THINNING; STATORS; STRAIN RATE;

AVERAGE STRAIN RATE; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; METZNER-OTTO CONCEPT; MULTISTAGE; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; POWER CHARACTERISTIC; ROTOR-STATOR MIXER; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84904254066     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.06.039     Document Type: Article

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