Description
Mixing and blending liquids is one of the most important and ubiquitous unit operations across all sectors of the chemical process industries (CPI). This guidebook provides a collection of practical, tutorial-style engineering articles that address key challenges in mixer selection, design, operation, and maintenance to achieve technical, financial, environmental, and safety objectives.
Features & Benefits
- Practical guidance on selecting, specifying, and maintaining mixers and agitators
- Coverage of high-shear mixers, static mixers, stirred tanks, continuous stirred-tank reactors (CSTRs), agitated reactors, and millichannel reactors
- Tips for blending challenging liquids and managing viscosity-related issues
- Engineering recommendations for safe operation and environmentally sound mixing processes
- Design insights for improved productivity and scale-up from laboratory to industrial processes
- Techniques for inline viscosity measurement and process monitoring
Audience
- Process and chemical engineers
- Plant operations and maintenance engineers
- Design engineers working on batch and continuous processes
- R&D professionals focusing on reactor and mixing systems
- Technical managers in chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries
Articles Include
- High-Shear Mixing: Don’t Fall Victim to Common Misconceptions
- Don’t Be Baffled By Static Mixers
- Mechanical Design Aspects for High-Performance Agitated Reactors
- Viscosity: The Basics
- Ten Things You May Not Know About Liquid Mixing Scaleup
- Effective Agitator Operation and Maintenance
- Liquid Mixing in Stirred Tanks
- Beyond Simple Mixing
- Gas-Liquid Mixing: Physical Considerations
- Millichannel Reactors: A Practical Middle Ground for Production
- Fundamentals of High-Shear Dispersers
- CSTRs: Bound for Maximum Conversion
- High-Shear Mixing
- The Unexpected Rewards of Testing a Mixer
- Photochemical Processes in Stirred Tank Reactors
- Inline Viscosity Measurements
- Mixers: Four Innovations Worth a Closer Look
- Making Emulsions
- CFD: Driving Engineering Productivity
- Portable CFD: Build Interpolation Models from CFD Results
- Increase Productivity Through Better Gas-Liquid Mixing
- From Batch to Continuous Processing
- CSTR Design for Reversible Reactions
- Viscosity Measurement
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 152
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Please do not forward or distribute the PDF file. It is against the law to copy, fax, or electronically transmit this material without permission.
