<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Mixing processes are becoming today a huge concern for industrialists in various domains like the pharmaceutical production, oil refining, food industry and manufacture of cosmetic products especially when the processes are related to the mixing of highly viscous products. So the choice of a stirring system for this category of products or fluids must be rigorously examined before use because of the flows which are laminar in the most cases, something that is not good to obtain homogeneous particles or suspensions after the mixing operation. This CFD study allows developing a new geometrical model of mechanical agitator with high performance for mixing of highly viscous fluids. It consists of a combination of two bladed and helical screw agitators. The investigations of the flow structure generated in the vessel are made by using the computer code ANSYS CFX (version 13.0), which allows us to realize and test the effectiveness of the new stirrer on the resulting mixture and power consumption.</p></abstract>

Mixing processes are becoming today a huge concern for industrialists in various domains like the pharmaceutical production, oil refining, food industry and manufacture of cosmetic products especially when the processes are related to the mixing of highly viscous products. So the choice of a stirring system for this category of products or fluids must be rigorously examined before use because of the flows which are laminar in the most cases, something that is not good to obtain homogeneous particles or suspensions after the mixing operation. This CFD study allows developing a new geometrical model of mechanical agitator with high performance for mixing of highly viscous fluids. It consists of a combination of two bladed and helical screw agitators. The investigations of the flow structure generated in the vessel are made by using the computer code ANSYS CFX (version 13.0), which allows us to realize and test the effectiveness of the new stirrer on the resulting mixture and power consumption.

A new geometrical model for mixing of highly viscous fluids by combining two-blade and helical screw agitators

University Hassiba Benbouali of Chlef Faculty of Technology

University Center Ahmed Salhi of Naâma (Ctr Univ Naâma)

Department of Technology, Institute of Science and Technology

Polish Journal of Chemical Technology

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Mixing processes are becoming today a huge concern for industrialists in various domains like the pharmaceutical production, oil refining, food industry and...

A new geometrical model for mixing of highly viscous fluids by combining two-blade and helical screw agitators

Published Online: Oct 10, 2017

Page range: 83 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pjct-2017-0053

Keywords
CFD, helical agitator, highly viscous fluid, stirred tank, two blade agitator

© 2017 Abdessalam Hadjeb et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A new geometrical model for mixing of highly viscous fluids by combining two-blade and helical screw agitators

Published Online: Oct 10, 2017

Page range: 83 - 91

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pjct-2017-0053

KeywordsCFD, helical agitator, highly viscous fluid, stirred tank, two blade agitator

© 2017 Abdessalam Hadjeb et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
CFD, helical agitator, highly viscous fluid, stirred tank, two blade agitator