Advances in industrial mixing : a companion to the Handbook of industrial mixing

Advances in Industrial Mixing is a companion volume and update to the Handbook of Industrial Mixing. The second volume fills in gaps for a number of industries that were not covered in the first edition. Significant changes in five of the fundamental areas are covered in entirely updated or new chap...

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Other Authors Kresta, Suzanne M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2016]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781118944301
1118944305
9781118944295
1118944291
1523109920
9781523109920
0470523824
9780470523827
Physical Description1 online resource (lxiii, 964 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • ADVANCES ININDUSTRIAL MIXING; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS LIST; EDITORS' INTRODUCTION; CONTENTS OF THE DVD, INCLUDINGIN STRUCTIONAL VIDEOS; ELECTRONIC (PDF) VERSION OF THE HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL MIXING; COLOR FIGURES AND TROUBLESHOOTING CHARTS; 22 INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS; VIDEO LIBRARY; SOURCES OF ADDITIONAL VIDEOS; INTRODUCTION: A Technical Definition of Mixing; RANGE OF INDUSTRIAL MIXING APPLICATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS OF SEGREGATION: A TECHNICAL DEFINITION OF MIXING; IDENTIFYING MIXING PROBLEMS: DEFINING THE CRITICAL SCALES AND PROCESS OBJECTIVES; NOTATION; REFERENCES.
  • CHAPTER 1a: Residence Time Distributions1a-1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1b: Mean Age Theory for Quantitative Mixing Analysis; 1b-1 INTRODUCTION; 1b-2 AGE AND TIME IN A FLOW SYSTEM; 1b-3 GOVERNING EQUATIONS OF MEAN AGE AND HIGHER MOMENTS; 1b-4 COMPUTATION OF MEAN AGE; 1b-4.1 Validations of Numerical Solutions; 1b-4.2 Spatial Distribution of Mean Age in Mixing Devices; 1b-5 RELATIONS OF MEAN AGE AND RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; 1b-6 VARIANCES AND THE DEGREE OF MIXING; 1b-6.1 Variance of Residence Time Distribution; 1b-6.2 Variances of Age; 1b-6.3 Degree of Mixing.
  • 1b-6.4 Spatial Nonuniformity in CFSTRs1b-7 MEAN AGE AND CONCENTRATION IN A CFSTR; 1b-7.1 Time History of Tracer Concentration; 1b-7.2 Mixing Time in CFSTRs; 1b-8 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION OF MEAN AGE; 1b-8.1 Definition; 1b-8.2 Scaling and Blend Time Estimation; 1b-9 FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF MEAN AGE THEORY; NOMENCLATURE; Greek Letters; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2a: Turbulence in Mixing Applications; 2a-1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2b: Update to Turbulence in Mixing Applications; 2b-1 INTRODUCTION; 2b-2 THE VELOCITY FIELD AND TURBULENCE; 2b-2.1 Circulation and Macromixing.
  • 2b-2.2 Fully Turbulent Limits and the Scaling of Turbulence2b-3 SPECTRUM OF TURBULENT LENGTH SCALES: INJECTION OF SCALAR (EITHER REAGENT OR ADDITIVE) AND THE MACRO-, MESO-, AND MICROSCALES OF MIXING; 2b-3.1 Mesoscale Mixing; 2b-3.2 New Experimental Results; 2b-3.3 Summary; 2b-4 TURBULENCE AND MIXING OF SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, AND GASES; 2b-5 SPECIFYING MIXING REQUIREMENTS FOR A PROCESS; 2b-5.1 Mixing Test Cells; 2b-6 CONCLUSIONS; NOTATION; Roman Characters; Greek Characters; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3a: Laminar Mixing: A Dynamical Systems Approach; 3a-1 INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAPTER 3b: Microstructure, Rheology, and Processing of Complex Fluids3b-1 INTRODUCTION; 3b-2 LITERATURE ANALYSIS-MIXING OF COMPLEX FLUIDS; 3b-3 COMMON COMPLEX FLUID RHEOLOGY CLASSES AND THEIR EFFECTS; 3b-3.1 Shear-Thinning Fluids; 3b-3.2 Yield Stress Fluids; 3b-3.3 Shear-Thickening Fluids; 3b-3.4 Time-Dependent Fluids; 3b-4 CONCLUSIONS; NOMENCLATURE; Greek Symbols; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4: Experimental Methods; 4-1 INTRODUCTION; 4-1.1 Preliminary Considerations; CHAPTER 5a: Computational Fluid Mixing; 5a-1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 5b: CFD Modeling of Stirred Tank Reactors; 5b-1 NUMERICAL ISSUES.