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Explore how laminar mixing flows improve material properties & reaction speeds in polymer and food industries. Optimize mixing protocols & geometries for cost-effective results.
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Mixing and mapping 4E037 Dr. ir. Patrick D. Anderson Whoog 4.142 Polymeertechnologie, MaTe, W http://www.mate.tue.nl http://www.mate.tue.nl/~anderson/4E037
Relevance of laminar mixing flows • Polymer processing • – improve material properties • – mixing of existing polymers is cheaper than • developing new polymers • • Process industry • – heat transport • – enhancement of reaction speeds • • Food industry • – structure development
Mixing and mapping: Project goals • Basics of distributive mixing • Basics of the mapping method • Optimization of mixing protocol: Cavity mixing flow • Optimization of mixing protocol: Journal bearing flow • Optimization of mixing geometry: Kenics mixer • Choice of mixing goal • Choice of mixing measure • Intensity of segregation • Scale of segregation • ….. • DEVELOP YOUR OWN MIXING PROTOCOL • EXPERIMENTS