Features:

• An insightful view of the author's forty years of experience
• Reliable scale-up rules for stirring task
• Mixing in pipes
• More than 730 references
• The most up-dated scientific literature
• List of Latin symbols
• Technology behind stirring
• Stirring theories

Stirring is one of the most important operations in process technology. No chemical exists that has non been submitted to a mixing process during its synthesis. Furthermore, stirring is important for the pharmaceutical and food industries, too.

The most important mixing operations are applied to homogenize miscible liquids, to intensify the heat transfer between a liquid and the heat exchanger, and to perform mass transfer in multiphase systems, to whirl up solid particles in fluids and to disperse immiscible liquids.

Stirring: Theory and Practice discusses in detail the above listed operations, taking into consideration also different rheological behaviour of the system treated (Newtonian and non-Newtonian).

Contents

1. Stirring General
2. Stirrer Power
3. Homogenization
4. Gas-Liquid Contacting
5. Suspensions of Solids in Liquids (S/L System)
6. Dispersions in L/L Systems
7. Intensifaction of Heat Transfer by Stirring
8. Mixing and Stirring in Pipes

Literature
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