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:
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 p2+ 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.
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