Fluid Mechanics of Mixing: Modelling, Operations and Experimental Techniques

Effect of macromixing on a competitive/consecutive reaction in a semi-batch stirred reactor: Paul's iodination experiments interpreted by networks-of-zones.- The variation of flow pattern and mixing time with impeller spacing in stirred vessels with two Rushton impellers.- Development of transitional flow mixing impeller.- Distribution of turbulence characteristics in agitated systems with axial high-speed impeller and baffles.- A computational study on dispersing gas in a stirred reactor.- Measurements and modelling of flow in gas sparged, agitated vessels.- Simple performance correlations for agitated vessels.- Gradients in production scale bioreactors.- Solid distribution in slurry reactors stirred with multiple impellers: continuous flow systems.- The mixing of miscible liquids with large differences in density and viscosity.- Power input and gas hold up in gas liquid dispersions agitated by axial flow impellers.- Improving Xanthan fermentation performance by changing agitators.- Determination of the mean specific power input in stirred vessels with suspensions.- A comparison of the efficiency of five agitator designs for solids suspension duties at high solids concentrations.- The design of agitated dissolution tanks.- Modelling and control of multistage mixer extractors.- Local measurements of liquid and solid velocities and of particle sizes in stirred suspensions with a phase doppler particle analyser.- Hydrodynamic characteristics of a gas-inducing impeller.- Heat transfer in mechanically stirred gas-liquid system.- Heat and mass transfer efficiencies of multi-impeller gas-viscous liquids contactors.- Measurement of concentration fluctuations during mixing in a stirred tank and in a channel flow by laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy.- Reynolds stresses and stirring regimes of a Rushton turbine.- Micromixing behaviour in a batch vessel with several impellers using alkali-fluorescent dye system.- An experimental study of micromixing using two parallel reactions.- LDA measurements of flow in stirred gas-liquid reactors.- A study of ventilated gas cavities on disc-turbine blades.- Numerical particle tracking in a turbine agitated vessel.- Residence time distribution of solid and liquid phase in a stirred tank reactor.- Local wall heat transfer coefficients using surface calorimeters.