Mixing impellers Propeller

Liquid mixing impellers propeller,turbine, anchor... 

Axial flow impeller (propeller) or mixed flow type (horizontal or vertical)... 

Entrainment is an important element in the mixing operation and involves incorporation of low velocity fluid into the mass of the fluid stream or jet issuing from a source such as a mixing impeller. The axial flow from a propeller under proper physical conditions serves as a circular cross-section jet to produce mixing by turbulence and entrainment. The flat-blade turbine issues a jet for entrainment at the top and bottom, areas of the ring [2]. It is significant to estimate the relative amount of liquid involved due to entrainment, as this helps to describe the effectiveness of the operation. 

External jackets, 326-328 Helical coils, 312, 326, 327 Vertical coils, 326, 327 Mixing impellers, 290-297 Anchor, 290-329 Blending, 324, 326 Characteristic curves, 306 Chart to examine turbine applications, 296 Efficiency of propellers, 299 Flow of propellers. 298, 299 Flow patterns, 309-312 Gas-Liquid contacting, 324, 326 General list impellers, 291 Helical, 290, 329 Liquid-liquid dispersion, 326 Multiple, 297... 

Liquid mixing impellers basic, propeller,turbine, r Li JL n-Lo UJ Motor (5) u-... 

Liquid-Liquid Mixer Design Many different types of impellers are used for liquid-liquid extraction, including flat-blade and pitched-blade turbines, marine-type propellers, and special pump-mix impellers. With pump-mix designs, the impeller serves not only to mix the fluids, but also to move the fluids through the extraction stages of a mixer-settler cascade. The agitated vessel should be baffled if the vessel is operated with a gas-liquid surface, to avoid forming a vortex. As noted earlier in reference to Eq. (15-172), baffles are not needed if the vessel is operated with the liquid full [Weinstein and Treybal, AIChEJ., 19(2), pp. 304-312 (1973)]. 

Mixing impellers (a) three-blade marine propeller (b) open straight-blade turbine (c) bladed disk turbine (d) vertical curved-blade turbine (c) pitched-blade turbine. 

Newton no. inertial force 10 mixing impellers ro-todynamic machinery. Power number = Newton no. if Pr no. not important that is no vortex. For Re > lO", for turbines Po usually = 1-6 for marine propellers, Po usually = 0.2-1... 

Axial-tlow impellers rnav also be mounted near the bottom of the cylindrical wall of a cssel as shown in Fig, 18-10, Such side-entering agitators are used to blend low- iscositv fluids [<(), Pa-s (100 cP)] or to keep slowly settling sediment suspended in tanks as large as some 4000 rn (1(P gal). Mixing of paper pulp i.s often carried out by sideentering propellers. 

Impeller types usually used with mixing and listed in decreasing order of high volume ability (hence in increasing order of high head ability or requirement) are paddle, turbine, propeller, sawtooth impeller or propeller, cut-out impeller disc (no blades), colloid mill. 

Figure 5-5Y. A-310 Impeller. Develops 50% more action than ordinary propellers and is geometrically similar for accurate scale-up. By permission, Lightnin, a unit of General Signal. (Formerly Mixing Equipment Co.)...

Figures 5-3 and 5-5 illustrate a few of the types of impellers used for mixing. They may be basically classified as axial, radial and mixed. In general the most generally applicable are the. 3-bladed propeller, the flat-blade turbine, the curved blade turbine, and the paddle. The many other designs are either modifications of these or specially designed for a very special purpose with respect to a fluid system and/or its performance.

Figure 7.20 shows some of the impellers which are frequently used. Propellers, turbines, paddles, anchors, helical ribbons and screws are usually mounted on a central vertical shaft in a cylindrical tank, and they are selected for a particular duty largely on the basis of liquid viscosity. By and large, it is necessary to move from a propeller to a turbine and then, in order, to a paddle, to an anchor and then to a helical ribbon and finally to a screw as the viscosity of the fluids to be mixed increases. In so doing the speed of agitation or rotation decreases. 

The experimental results in Fig. 27 show the influence of the reactor system (see Fig. 28) on the disintegration of enzyme activity. It was found that the low-stress bladed impeller results in less activity loss than the propeller stirrer which causes much higher maximum energy dissipation ,. The gentle motion the blade impeller produces means that stress is so low that its disadvantage of worse micro mixing in NaOH (in comparison with the propeller) is more than compensated. 

The three basic types of impeller which are used at high Reynolds numbers (low viscosity) are shown in Figures 10.55a, b, c. They can be classified according to the predominant direction of flow leaving the impeller. The flat-bladed (Rushton) turbines are essentially radial-flow devices, suitable for processes controlled by turbulent mixing (shear controlled processes). The propeller and pitched-bladed turbines are essentially axial-flow devices, suitable for bulk fluid mixing. 

The impeller is the part of the agitator that impacts force to the material being mixed. Propellers, turbines, gates, anchors, and paddles are all types of impellers. Typically, the impeller is a single propeller or turbine blade connected to a shaft that is driven by an electric motor at a fixed speed. There are two classes of impeller agitators axial-flow and radial-flow, and the mixing characteristics are shown in Figure 3.14. 

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