2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Novel Experimental Methods in Mixing

Novel ways to experimentally explore mixing fundamentals and mixer performance are continually being developed. Such new developments are included in this session.

Chair

Minye Liu, DuPont Engineering Technology

Co-Chair

Gary K. Patterson, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Presentations

08:30 AM

(434a) Studies on Impeller Design on Power Consumption from Temperature Rise Data in a Stirred Tank
Damaraju P. Rao, Chander S. Mahey

08:55 AM

(434b) Improving on a Good Thing: The Chemineer Xe-3 High-Efficiency Impeller
Eric E. Janz, Julian B. Fasano, Kevin J. Myers

09:20 AM

(434c) New Impeller for Gas Dispersion
Wojciech Wyczalkowski, Robert W. Higbee, Binxin Wu

09:45 AM

(434e) Mixer Performance and Scale-up Calculations Using a Microsoft Excel Based Tool
David A. R. Brown

10:10 AM

(434f) Using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) to Study Mixing in Stirred Vessels
Mostafa Barigou, Paulina Pianko-Oprych, Luke Adams, Antonio Guida, Fabio Chiti, Alvin W. Nienow