FLUID MIXING & POWER CONSUMPTION IN AGITATED VESSEL

About FLUID MIXING & POWER CONSUMPTION IN AGITATED VESSEL

DESCRIPTION  For a processing vessel to be effective the volume of fluid circulated by the impellers must be sufficient to sweep out the entire vessel in a reasonable time The velocity of the stream leaving the impeller must be sufficient to carry the current to the remotest parts of the tank Liquids are most often mixed in some kind of tanks or vessels usually cylindrical in form and with a vertical axis Tank bottom is rounded to eliminate regions into which the fluid currents would not penetrate In the present setup mixing is done with the help of stirrer The stirrer is complete with SS Impeller with SS Shaft coupled to FHP DC motor The speed of agitator can be varied with the help of Thyristor controlled DC Drive and power consumption is measured by Digital Voltmeter  Digital Ammeter Four replaceable baffles are provided to prevent swirling One 4bladded propeller and one 6bladded turbine are provided which are interchangeable Drain valve is also provided at the bottom Effectiveness of power consumption in fluid mixing can be performed with and without baffles hence increasing the range of experimentation The whole setup is mounted on a rigid MS frame structure EXPERIMENTATION   To plot Power number Vs Reynolds number for the given set of impeller with baffled unbaffled mixing  To study the mixing characteristics of give solidliquid mixture