Publications related to Mixing (process engineering)

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Imaging of Chemical Kinetics at the Water–Water Interface in a Free-Flowing Liquid Flat-Jet

We present chemical kinetics measurements of the luminol oxidation chemiluminescence (CL) reaction at the interface between two aqueous solutions, using liquid jet technology. Free-flowing liquid microjets are a relatively recent development that have foun ...

2022

Unsteady Flow Numerical Simulations on Internal Energy Dissipation for a Low-Head Centrifugal Pump at Part-Load Operating Conditions

François Avellan, Xiaoran Zhao

Dredge pumps are usually operated at part-load conditions, in which the low-solidity centrifugal impeller could experience large internal energy dissipation, related to flow separation and vortices. In this study, SST k- and SAS-SST turbulence models were ...

2019

Mechanical energy budget and mixing efficiency for a radiatively heated ice-covered waterbody

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Hugo Nicolás Ulloa Sánchez

Ice-covered waterbodies are far from being quiescent systems. In this paper, we investigate ice-covered freshwater basins heated by solar radiation that penetrates across waters with temperatures below or near the temperature of maximum density. In this sc ...

Cambridge University Press2018

Experimental Investigation of Pressure Fluctuations in a High-Energy Centrifugal Pump Stage at Off-Design Conditions

François Avellan, Mohamed Farhat, Philippe Dupont

In centrifugal pumps, the interaction between the rotating impeller blades and the stationary diffuser vanes generates specific pressure fluctuation patterns. At off design operation, high incidence and large local pressure gradients can lead to flow separ ...

Institution of Mechanical Engineers2014

Heat Management for Process Intensification of Fast Exothermic Reactions in Microstructured Reactors

Julien Haber

Nowadays, the production in fine chemical and pharmaceutical industry is mostly carried out in large scale batch reactors having typically dimensions of a few meters to satisfy the demand of the market. Even though this technology has been widely used and ...

EPFL2013

Intensification of slow reversible chemical transformation: carboxylation of resorcinol as a case study

Lioubov Kiwi, Charline Berguerand, Anne-Laure Dessimoz

Conjugated kinetic and thermodynamic modeling is suggested as a suitable approach to identify a novel process window (NPW) for the intensification of slow reversible reactions. The aqueous Kolbe-Schmitt synthesis of beta-resorcylic acid is taken as a model ...

De Gruyter2013

Procédé et dispositif de fabrication de briquettes

Process for producing a briquette containing carbon carriers (2): mixing the carbon carriers (2) together with a binder system (3) with introduction of steam and the mixture obtained is pressed to form briquettes. At least one of drying carbon carriers (2) ...

2013

Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF) feedstock development and optimization for thermoplastic forming of thin planar and tubular oxygen separation membranes

Stefan Diethelm

This paper presents the processing steps for producing thin planar and tubular oxygen separation membranes by thermoplastic forming of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF) with polystyrene (PS) and stearic acid (SA) as binder. The influence of powder conten ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Biphasic Model Describing Soybean Oil Epoxidation with H2O2 in Continuous Reactors

Albert Renken

Epoxidized soybean oil (ESBO) is produced in industry by reacting soybean oil, at 60-70 degrees C, with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of formic or acetic acid. A small amount of sulphuric or phosphoric acid is necessary to catalyze the oxidation of the ...

2012

Mixing efficiency and energy consumption for five generic microchannel designs

Albert Renken, Lioubov Kiwi, Madhvanand Namadeo Kashid

Mixing is an essential part of chemical processes. In the present work, homogeneous mixing at relatively high throughput for a single microchannel (of 1-18 mL/min) was investigated in microchannels with different dimensions, cross sections and mixing eleme ...

2011

Algebraic turbulence modeling in adiabatic and evaporating annular two-phase flow

John Richard Thome, Andrea Cioncolini

The study considers algebraic turbulence modeling in adiabatic and evaporating annular two-phase flow, focusing in particular on momentum and heat transfer (so-called 'convective boiling') through the annular liquid film. In contrast with single-phase wall ...

2011

On the heating mix of ITER

Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Costanza Zucca, Frank Rüdiger Wagner

This paper considers the heating mix of ITER for the two main scenarios. Presently, 73MWof absorbed power are foreseen in the mix 20/33/20 for ECH, NBI and ICH. Given a sufficient edge stability, Q = 10 the goal of scenario 2 can be reached with 40MW power ...

IOP2010

Electrospray Micromixer Chip for On-Line Derivatization and Kinetic Studies

Hubert Girault, Niels Erik Lion, Loïc Dayon, Mélanie Abonnenc

An electrospray microchip for mass spectrometry comprising an integrated passive mixer to carry out on-chip chemical derivatizations is described. The microchip fabricated using UV-photoablation is composed of two microchannels linked together by a liquid ...

2008

Scale-down approach : chemical process optimisation using reaction calorimetry for the experimental simulation of industrial reactors dynamics

Benoît Zufferey

This thesis deals with the combined utilisation of a reaction calorimeter, the RC1® commercialised by Mettler Toledo and equipped with a 2 L glass reactor, and the heat transfer dynamics modelling of industrial reactors. By doing so, the temperature evolut ...

EPFL2006