Experimental characterization and mixing modeling of a horizontally rotating disc reactor

• Published in: Chemical engineering science Vol. 280; p. 118995
• Main Authors: Jäger, Luca, Scholl, Stephan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 05.10.2023
• Subjects: Fluid dynamics; Mixing; Mixing time; Rotating cylinder; Rotating Disc Reactor; Mixing; Rotating Disc Reactor; Rotating cylinder; Fluid dynamics; Mixing time

•Optical measurement of mixing time in a partially filled, horizontally rotating cylinder.•Effect of speed, filling level, reactor diameter, and width on mixing time.•Modeling the dependencies of the mixing number by a power law with a set of dimensionless numbers.•Significant influence of the axial...