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Mixing is an important process used in many chemical and physical operations to blend, dissolve, disperse, suspend, emulsify, transfer heat, and catalyze chemical reactions. Mixing refers to making a non-uniform system uniform by randomly distributing two or more initially separated phases. The type of mixing depends on whether the materials being mixed are liquids, semi-solids, or solids, and whether they are miscible. Mixing can be classified as liquid-liquid, gas-gas, solid-solid, or solid-liquid depending on the states of the materials. Proper mixer selection and understanding of mixing mechanisms, scale-up criteria, power consumption, and mixing rates and times are important for assessing and designing mixing

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Presentation By: Er. Bijay Adhikari

Mixing is an important process used in many chemical and physical operations to blend, dissolve, disperse, suspend, emulsify, transfer heat, and catalyze chemical reactions. Mixing refers to making a non-uniform system uniform by randomly distributing two or more initially separated phases. The type of mixing depends on whether the materials being mixed are liquids, semi-solids, or solids, and whether they are miscible. Mixing can be classified as liquid-liquid, gas-gas, solid-solid, or solid-liquid depending on the states of the materials. Proper mixer selection and understanding of mixing mechanisms, scale-up criteria, power consumption, and mixing rates and times are important for assessing and designing mixing

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Presentation by: Er.

Bijay Adhikari
 Mixing is an integral part of chemical or physical processes mixing of
fluids such as blending, dissolving, dispersion, suspension, emulsification,
heat transfer, and chemical reactions. Many operations depend to a great
extent of effectiveness in mixing.

 Mixing refers to process or an operation used to change a non uniform


system to uniform.(i.e., the random distribution of two or more initially
separated phases).

 Mixing classification

 The type of operation and equipment used during mixing depends on


the state of materials being mixed (liquid, semi-solid, or solid) and the
miscibility of the materials being processed. In this context, the act of
mixing may be synonymous with stirring-, or kneading-processes.

 Mixing is often called blending or agitation. Presentation by: Er. Bijay Adhikari
Types:
1) Liquid-liquid mixing
Turbulent or transitional mixing is frequently conducted with turbines or impellers;
laminar mixing is conducted with helical ribbon or anchor mixers.

2) Gas-gas mixing
Gas blending is the process of mixing gases for a specific purpose where the
composition of the resulting mixture is specified and controlled. A wide range of
applications include scientific and industrial processes, food production and
storage and breathing gases.

3) Solid –solid mixing


Blending of solids is one of the unit operation in solid handling industries for
example cement industries.

4) Solid –liquid mixing


Example: Concrete mixing, sugar or salt mixing with water. Presentation by: Er. Bijay Adhikari
An introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics by Chuen Yen Chow

Mixer types

 Ribbon blenders
Normally used for dry blending and are very common in the chemical,
pharmaceutical, and food industries

 Planetory mixers
A planetary mixer is a device used to mix round products including adhesives,
pharmaceuticals, foods (including dough), chemicals, electronics, plastics and
pigments.

 Banbury mixers
Banbury mixer are used for mixing or compounding rubber and plastics

 Static mixers
Static mixers are used when a mixing tank would be too large, too slow, or too
expensive to use in a given process. Presentation by: Er. Bijay Adhikari
In mixing, there are two types of problems to be considered
- How to design and select a mixing equipment
- And other how to assess whether a given mixer is suitable for a particular
application.

In both cases, following aspects of the mixing process should be understood


 Mechanisms of the mixing
 Scale up or similarity criteria
 Power consumption
 Rate of mixing and time of mixing
 Range of equipment available and its selection

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 It is considered that when 2 fluids are mixed together, molecular behavior of
the dispersed fluid falls between two extremes, as said by Levenspeil.

If molecule are completely free to move about, the dispersed fluid


behavior as micro fluid and exhibit no segregation.

But when the dispersed fluids remains as clumps containing large number
of molecule is termed das macro fluid.

 Furthermore,
As macro fluid is transformed to micro fluid by physical mixing process (e.g.
turbulence or molecular diffusion) the degree of segregation decreases.

 The performance of equipment in which heat transfer occurs is expressed in


terms of forced convective heat transfer coefficient.

Presentation by: Er. Bijay Adhikari


Presentation by: Er. Bijay Adhikari

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