Intensification of mixing of shear-thinning fluids possessing yield stress with the coaxial mixers composed of two different central impellers and an anchor

Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification

Volumn 111, Issue , 2017, Pages 101-114

  Kazemzadeh, Argang ^a   Ein Mozaffari, Farhad ^a   Lohi, Ali ^a   Pakzad, Leila ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coaxial mixer; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Mixing intensification; Multiple impellers; Tomography; Yield pseudoplastic fluids

Indexed keywords

IMPELLERS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR THINNING; STRAIN RATE; TOMOGRAPHY; YIELD STRESS;

COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE IMPELLERS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PSEUDOPLASTIC FLUID; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; TRANSITIONAL REGIMES; VELOCITY PROFILES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 85006272622     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2016.10.019     Document Type: Article

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