2017 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

(161a) The Development of a Correlation for Solid-Liquid Cloud Height in Mechanical Agitated Vessels
Robert Hesketh, Arthur W. Etchells

12:49 PM

(161b) Impeller Power Draw during Turbulent Operation in Liquid-Solid Suspensions
Kevin Myers, Eric E. Janz

01:08 PM

(161c) Novel Experimental Method for the Determination of the Minimum Agitation Speed for Solids Suspension in Flat-Bottomed Stirred Tank Reactors
Shriarjun Shastry, Piero Armenante

01:27 PM

(161d) Simulating Solid Suspension in Stirred Vessels with a Fully Coupled CFD-DEM Algorithm
Oleh Baran, Ravindra Aglave, Simon Lo, Thomas Eppinger

01:46 PM

(161e) Understanding Particle Attrition in Agitated 3-Phase Aerated Slurry Reactors
Justin Walker, Mark Joswiak, Patrick McGough

02:05 PM

(161f) A Unifying Framework for Mass Transfer Dynamics in Gas – Liquid Segmented Flow in a Circular Tube
Ghata Nirmal, Thomas F. Leary, Arun Ramchandran

02:24 PM

(161g) Phase Inversion of a Solid-Stabilized Emulsion: Effect of Particle Concentration
Louis Fradette, Bing Wan

02:43 PM

(161h) A Eulerian-Lagrangian Hybrid Model for the Simulation of the Droplet Size Distribution of Liquid-Liquid Emulsions in Stirred Tank Reactors
Reza Farzad, Simon Schneiderbauer