Abstract:This doctoral thesis addresses the mixing of highly viscous Newtonian fluids (corn syrup solutions) in a novel aerated reactor equipped with a central impeller (a pitched blade turbine in upward or downward pumping mode) and a wall scraping anchor. The non-intrusive electrical resistance tomography (ERT), dynamic gas disengagement method (DGD), design of experiments (DOE), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and population balance model (PBM) were employed to characterize the performance of this novel aerated … Show more
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