Stirring and mixing are operations widely used in a large number of processes and industrial areas, such as mining, food, Petroleum, chemical and pharmaceutical products, effluent treatment and many others.
Agitation should be analyzed in order to consider the critical step of the process under study. For the correct design and specification of the agitator or mixer, it is of fundamental importance to consider all process variables.: Saturation, pressure, temperature, velocity, viscosity, etc.
Differences between stirring and mixing
agitation: Refers to the induced movement of a material in a given shape, usually circulatory, inside a container. A single homogeneous substance can be stirred.
Mix: Random movement of two or more initially separate phases. Mixing fluids in stirred vessels is one of the most important unit operations for chemical industries., biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical and food.
Some operations on shakers
- Dispersion of immiscible liquids;
- Disperse a gas in a liquid aeration;
- Promote heat transfer;
- Promote mass transfer;
- Reduce particle clumps;
- Speed up chemical reactions.
- Obtain materials with properties different from those of the original material;
- Heating or cooling solutions.
Spreadsheets for calculating agitators
Check out the spreadsheets available at the Project Factory for automatic calculation of Agitators:
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