Critical review of different aspects of liquid-solid mixing operations

P Mishra, F Ein-Mozaffari - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2020 - degruyter.com
Mechanically stirred slurry tanks are utilized in several industries to perform various unit
operations such as crystallization, adsorption, ion-exchange, suspensions polymerization …

Study of solid–liquid mixing in agitated tanks through electrical resistance tomography

S Hosseini, D Patel, F Ein-Mozaffari… - Chemical Engineering …, 2010 - Elsevier
Electrical resistance tomography (ERT), which is a non-intrusive flow visualization
technique, was used to investigate the solid–liquid mixing in an agitated tank equipped with …

Study of solid− liquid mixing in agitated tanks through computational fluid dynamics modeling

S Hosseini, D Patel, F Ein-Mozaffari… - Industrial & …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Solid− liquid mixing is one of the most important mixing operations due to its vast
applications in many unit operations such as crystallization, adsorption, solid-catalyzed …

Experimental measurement and computational fluid dynamics simulation of mixing in a stirred tank: a review

A Ochieng, M Onyango, K Kiriamiti - South African Journal of …, 2009 - journals.co.za
Stirred tanks are typically used in many reactions. The quality of mixing generated by the
impellers can be determined using either experimental and simulation methods, or both …

CFD simulation of solid–liquid stirred tanks for low to dense solid loading systems

D Wadnerkar, MO Tade, VK Pareek, RP Utikar - Particuology, 2016 - Elsevier
The hydrodynamics of suspension of solids in liquids are critical to the design and
performance of stirred tanks as mixing systems. Modelling a multiphase stirred tank at a high …

Using computational fluid dynamics to analyze the performance of the Maxblend impeller in solid-liquid mixing operations

P Mishra, F Ein-Mozaffari - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2017 - Elsevier
Solid-liquid mixing is prevalent in several industries due to its wide range of utilization in
various unit operations. The goal of this work was to examine the performance of the …

Critical analysis of Zwietering correlation for solids suspension in stirred tanks

I Ayranci, SM Kresta - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Design specifications for solids suspension (just suspended speed-N js) in stirred
tanks are currently based on the original form of the Zwietering correlation. There are …

CFD-DEM investigation of viscous solid–liquid mixing: Impact of particle properties and mixer characteristics

B Blais, F Bertrand - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2017 - Elsevier
In chemical engineering, numerous processes require the suspension of particles in a
laminar or transitional regime. For such operations, predicting the fraction of suspended …

Hydrodynamics of solid and liquid phases in a mixing tank containing high solid loading slurry of large particles via tomography and computational fluid dynamics

A Kazemzadeh, F Ein-Mozaffari, A Lohi - Powder Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The main goal of this study was to assess the turbulent and hydrodynamics of the mixing of
high solid loading slurries of large particles. To determine the state of homogeneity in the …

Analysis of solid concentration distribution in dense solid–liquid stirred tanks by electrical resistance tomography

C Carletti, G Montante, T Westerlund… - Chemical Engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
The knowledge of the spatial solids distribution is important for predicting the performance of
various processes carried out in mechanically stirred equipment. In this work, the solid …