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On the behaviour of liquid dispersions in mixing vessels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Reuel Shinnar
Reuel Shinnar
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the conditions of flow in tanks containing stirred fluids. An attempt is made to apply the theoretical concepts of local isotropy to explain the behaviour of liquid in liquid dispersions, subjected to turbulent agitation. Relations describing quantitatively the influence of turbulence on both break-up and coalescence of individual droplets are derived and are compared with experimental evidence. A special type of dispersion is described in which droplet size is controlled by the prevention of coalescence due to turbulence. The dependence of droplet size on energy dissipation per unit mass, as predicted by the theory of local isotropy, is put to an experimental test using geometrically similar vessels of different sizes.

Though the results are not entirely conclusive, experimental evidence suggests that the hypothesis of locally isotropic flow may be applicable to the flow conditions described in the paper, and that statistical theories of turbulence can be of practical value in estimating droplet sizes in agitated dispersions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , March 1961 , pp. 259 - 275
Copyright
© 1961 Cambridge University Press

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