The flow field produced by a pitched blade turbine: characterization of the turbulence and estimation of the dissipation rate

SM Kresta, PE Wood - Chemical engineering science, 1993 - Elsevier
This paper compares various methods which have been used for the estimation of turbulent
length scales, and/or the rate of dissipation of turbulence kinetic energy (ε) in stirred tanks …

The mean flow field produced by a 45 pitched blade turbine: changes in the circulation pattern due to off bottom clearance

SM Kresta, PE Wood - The Canadian Journal of Chemical …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The impeller discharge stream and bulk circulation flow produced by a pitched blade turbine
(PBT) in a fully baffled stirred tank have been defined, using a combination of flow …

An LDA study of the turbulent flow field in a baffled vessel agitated by an axial, down‐pumping hydrofoil impeller

Z Jaworski, AW Nienow… - The Canadian Journal of …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The turbulent flow of water in a cylindrical, baffled vessel with an axial flow hydrofoil
impeller, either a Chemineer HE3 (CHE3) or a Prochem Maxflo T (PMT), has been studied …

On the origin, frequency and magnitude of macro-instabilities of the flows in stirred vessels

L Nikiforaki, G Montante, KC Lee… - Chemical Engineering …, 2003 - Elsevier
The mean flow and turbulence fields in a fully baffled vessel stirred by a Rushton impeller at
three clearances and a pitched-blade turbine at one clearance have been investigated with …

A digital particle image velocimetry investigation of flow field instabilities of axial-flow impellers

KJ Myers, RW Ward, A Bakker - 1997 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) has been used to examine the flow field in a vessel
agitated by an axial-flow impeller in turbulent operation. Both a pitched-blade turbine and a …

Reynolds number and impeller diameter effects on instabilities in stirred vessels

C Galletti, A Paglianti, KC Lee, M Yianneskis - AIChE journal, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Flow instability phenomena in stirred vessels were studied with laser anemometry and flow
visualization. The effects of fluid density and viscosity, impeller Reynolds number (Re) …

Macro-instabilities of velocity field in stirred vessel:: detection and analysis

P Hasal, JL Montes, HC Boisson, I Fořt - Chemical Engineering Science, 2000 - Elsevier
Results of the analysis of velocity data obtained by the laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) in a
flat-bottomed cylindrical stirred tank (300mm diameter, filled with the liquid to the height …

[PDF][PDF] 刚柔组合搅拌桨增强混合澄清槽内流体宏观不稳定性

刘作华, 唐巧, 王运东, 孙瑞祥, 郑雄攀, 陶长元 - 化工学报, 2014 - researchgate.net
流体宏观不稳定性可以反映流体轴向能量和质量的传递行为. 为揭示刚柔组合搅拌桨(简称柔性
桨) 作用下混合澄清槽中油水液-液两相非稳态流动规律, 采用频谱分析和小波分析组合法研究 …

Velocity field macro-instabilities in an axially agitated mixing vessel

JL Montes, HC Boisson, I Fořt, M Jahoda - Chemical Engineering Journal, 1997 - Elsevier
The flow pattern produced by a 45° pitched-blade turbine in a fully baffled cylindrical flat-
bottomed tank is investigated by a qualitative approach using a laser sheet flow visualisation …

Study of macro-instabilities in stirred tanks using a velocity decomposition technique

VT Roussinova, B Grgic, SM Kresta - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2000 - Elsevier
In this paper a quantitative measure of errors introduced in the turbulent velocity RMS signal
due to the presence of macroinstabilities (MI) in the velocity field is presented. The velocity …