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Design of Agitator

This document contains calculations to design an agitator for a batch reactor with the following specifications: batch volume of 4 m3, vessel diameter of 5.637 m, initial agitator diameter of 0.6 m rotating at 100 rpm. The calculations determine the required power, shaft diameter, and check that the elastic limit is within permissible limits. The initial agitator diameter does not meet the limits, so a new diameter of 0.95 m is chosen and calculations are redone to verify the elastic limit is now acceptable. Critical speed and actual speed as a percentage of critical speed are also calculated.

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Design of Agitator

This document contains calculations to design an agitator for a batch reactor with the following specifications: batch volume of 4 m3, vessel diameter of 5.637 m, initial agitator diameter of 0.6 m rotating at 100 rpm. The calculations determine the required power, shaft diameter, and check that the elastic limit is within permissible limits. The initial agitator diameter does not meet the limits, so a new diameter of 0.95 m is chosen and calculations are redone to verify the elastic limit is now acceptable. Critical speed and actual speed as a percentage of critical speed are also calculated.

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Design of Agitator
Batch Volume
Vessel Diameter
Agitator diameter
Agitation rpm
Overhang of agitator between shaft
bearing & agitator

V
T
D
N

=
=
=
=

4
1.5
0.6
100

No of Agitator

Properties of reactor contents


Density
Viscosity

=
=

1200
100

=
=
=
=
=
=

4.8
5.637
0.564
1.240
7.44

=
=
=
=

SS304

Permissible shear stress, fs


Elastic limit , f
Modulus of Elasticity, E
Output Torque, Tc
Max. torque, Tm
Polar modulus of section of c/s , Zp
(d)3
d

=
=
=
=
=

Force acting on radius from the axis of


agitator shaft, Fm
Bending moment, M

=
=

Agitator Data
Agitator Type

m3
m
m

rpm
m

kg/m3
cp

Curved blade (P-6)

Calculation
Power Requirement
Power Number
Power Required
Gland Loss (10%)
Transmission loss (20%)
Total requirement
Rounding to

Np
P

P
P

7.00

hp
hp
hp
hp

Agitator shaft diameter


Select shaft MOC

40
260
210000

N/mm2
N/mm2
N/mm2

498917.1975 N-mm

748375.8 N-mm
18709.395 mm3
95334.496 mm3
mm
45.68
3326
9978344

N
N-mm

Equivalent bending moment, Me


Elastic limit, f

=
=

9992356
1068

N-mm
N/mm2

Elastic limit is greater than permissible limit,Change agitator diameter, d

Enter ag

d
Elastic limit, f

=
=

95
119

=
=

3996171
36

Nc

158

Actual speed as % of critical speed

63.1

mm
N/mm2

Elastic limit is within permissible limit

Deflection of Shaft (D):


I

mm4
mm

Critical Speed (Nc):


rpm

Note: Actual speed of agitator should be 40 to 65 % of the critical speed and should not be

70 to 130 % of the critical speed.

not be

Enter agitator dia in 'mm'

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