The dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy and its relation to pumping power in inline rotor-stator mixers

Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification

Volumn 115, Issue , 2017, Pages 46-55

  Håkansson, Andreas ^a   Innings, Fredrik ^b,c  

^a KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Tetra Pak AB   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy; Emulsification; High shear mixers; Mixing; Pumping power; Rotor stator mixers; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EMULSIFICATION; GEARS; KINETICS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; PUMPS; STATORS; TURBULENCE;

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; DISSIPATION RATE OF TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; HIGH SHEAR MIXERS; HYDRODYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS; IN-LINE ROTOR-STATOR MIXERS; PUMPING POWER; ROTOR-STATOR MIXER; TURBULENT DISSIPATION;

KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 85010850206     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2017.01.007     Document Type: Article

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