2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Mixing in Multi-Phase Systems

Mixing and agitation of multi-phase systems, including gas-liquid, liquid-solid, and gas-liquid-solid mixing. Flow dynamics, mass transfer, and/or reactions.

Chair

Richard Calabrese, University of Maryland

Co-Chair

Eric E. Janz, NOV Mixing Technologies

Presentations

12:30 PM

(163a) A Model of Droplet Dispersion in a Turbulent Couette Flow
Dmitry Eskin, Dingzheng Yang, Shawn D. Taylor

12:51 PM

(163b) The Relationship Between Contact Pressure and Coalescence Time for Water-in-Bitumen Emulsions
Arun Ramchandran, Samson Ng, Sachin Goel

01:12 PM

(163c) Mixing Assessments for Industrial Stirred Tank Reactors with Gas Entrainment from the Headspace
Suraj Deshpande, Michael D. Cloeter, Barry Archer

01:33 PM

(163d) Resonant Acoustic Mixing Technology for the Production of Recombinant Proteins By E. coli.
Mauricio A. Trujillo-Roldán, Norma A. Valdez-Cruz, Greta I. Reynoso-Cereceda, Sara Restrepo-Pineda, Jesus González-Santana

01:54 PM

(163e) Toward a Correlation for SOLID Liquid Cloud Height in Mechanical Agitated Vessels
Arthur W. Etchells, Robert Hesketh

02:15 PM

(163f) Predicting Non-Mixing Regions of Granular Flows in a Spherical Tumbler
Mengqi Yu, Zafir Zaman, Paul P. Park, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Richard Lueptow, Julio M. Ottino

02:36 PM

(163g) Comparative Studies of Granular Flows Using Edem™, Liggghts (open source) and PIV Experimental Setup
Muhammad Shafiq Siraj, Muhammad Umer Khan, Babar Nawaz, Gul Niamat Shah