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Circulation time
Time mixing for a Independent of the type of impeller and turbulent
Rushton turbine flow the mixing time (10% deviation) can be
calculated:
Vessels of cylindrical
geometry
Mixing time for different type of impeller
nt T
Dashed line for unbaffle tank and solid line for baffle tank. t m=
N
Example of the mixing time
Geometry similarity
Dynamic similarity
Kinematic similarity
Thermal similarity
Chemical similarity
Biochemical similarity
Scale-up procedure
Could I deduce the value of n factor of the scale-up criteria for equal
power per unit volume and equal liquid motion?
Example
● An agitation system uses a curved-blade disc turbine with six blades.
4 4
3
P 1 DT 1
=
( )
P 2 DT 2
P=N ' p∗ρ∗N 3i ∗D5i
3 5 3
N ' p∗ρ∗N i 1∗D i1 D T 1
3 5
=
( )
N ' p∗ρ∗N i 2∗D i 2 D T 2
DT 1 Di 1
=
DT 2 Di 2
3 2
N i1 D T 1
( )
=
N i 2 DT 2
3
2/3
DT 1
( )
N i 2=N i1∗
DT 2