Mixing
Mixing/Blending:
- Solid-liquid, including crystallisation, switch from batch to continuous, control of in-line mixing
- Gas-liquid, including optimisation of high intensity gas mixing
- Liquid-liquid, including investigation of static mixers
Applications:
- Liquid-Liquid/Solid-Liquid/Gas-Liquid
- Lab/Pilot/Production
- Continuous/Batch/Semi-Batch
- Research/Process monitoring/Process Development
Benefits include:
- Development of new mixing techniques
- Determine mixing efficiency
- Monitor and improve product quality
- improved mixing homogeneity and efficiency
There are two main categories of mixing:
- batch mixing
- continuous mixing or in-line mixing
Within each of these categories are the materials that are being mixed, which can be categorised as:
- single phase mixing or blending - this is usually liquid / liquid or solid / solid mixing
- two or multi-phase mixing. This is usually gas / liquid mixing or solid / liquid mixing. In addition, solid / gas phase mixing and mixing of all three phases (solid / liquid / gas) are also found widely in industrial processes
Process tomography gives process users a tool to simultaneously measure concentrations at literally 100's of different points in a process stream. Analysis of these measurements provides an excellent tool for measuring mixing.
In batch mixing, the p2000 instrument provides information at up to 2,500 different locations several times per second. This configuration requires 8 separate circular measurement planes. Where space in a vessel is at a premium, a tomography probe can be substituted for existing furniture in vessel (such as dip pipes or baffles).
For in-line mixing, the 2 plane m3000 can be used for capacitance and resistance measurements such that a wide variety of materials can be observed.
