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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL REACTOR ENGINEERING
Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 687-699Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/ijcre-2022-0140
Keywords
CFD; liquid-liquid heterogeneous phase; mixer; process enhancement; specific surface area ratio
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The uniformity of mixing plays a crucial role in liquid-liquid two-phase chemical processes. This study proposes a specific surface area ratio to quantify the uniformity and designs a millimeter-scale mixer with a special baffle structure. By optimizing the baffle parameters, the specific surface area ratio and treatment capacity of the mixer are significantly improved.
The mixing uniformity plays a crucial role in a liquid-liquid two-phase chemical process. To quantify the uniformity of the liquid-liquid process, the specific surface area ratio is proposed and studied through computational fluid dynamics simulation. There is a scale effect in the liquid-liquid two phase chemical processing that the specific surface area ratio decreases to 7.01% when the diameter of the Y-like mixer increases from 1 mm to 10 mm. A millimeter-scale mixer with a fan-notched baffle structure was designed, and the baffle unit length, baffle tilt angle, baffle notch size and baffle thickness of the mixer were optimized. Compared with the 1 mm Y-like mixer, the specific surface area ratio of the 10 mm mixer with notched baffle structures increases to 2.5 times and the treatment capacity increases to 100 times. Additionally, experiment and simulation results prove that FNBS is considered to be a suitable structure for enhancing liquid-liquid two-phase. This study will provide a useful reference for the design of large-scale mixers applicable to liquid-liquid heterogeneous chemical processes.
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