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Title: | Experimental study of efficient mixing in a micro-fluidized bed |
Authors: | Zivkovic, Vladimir Ridge, Nadia Biggs, Mark J. |
Keywords: | Fluidization Mixing efficiency Micro-fluidized bed Micro-mixer Multiphase flow Process intensification |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | © Elsevier |
Citation: | ZIVKOVIC, V., RIDGE, N. and BIGGS, M.J., 2017. Experimental study of efficient mixing in a micro-fluidized bed. Applied Thermal Engineering, 127, pp. 1642-1649. |
Abstract: | Micro-fluidized beds represent a novel means of significantly enhancing mixing and mass and heat transfer under the low Reynolds number flows that dominate in microfluidic devices. This study experimentally evaluates the mixing performance of a micro-fluidized bed and the improvements it affords over the equivalent particle-free system. The dye dilution technique coupled with standard top-view image analysis was used to characterize the mixing in a 400×175μm 2 polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Y-microchannel. Overall, the micro-fluidized bed provided a mixing effectiveness and energetic efficiency of mixing that were up to three times greater than those of a particle-free channel of the same dimensions. The mixing performance is strongly affected by specific power input and bed voidage. The optimal operating voidage, which corresponds to the energetic efficiency of mixing being maximal, is around 0.77 for the smallest particle-to-channel size ratio considered here 0.121, and appears to increase beyond this with size ratio. |
Description: | This paper was published in the journal Applied Thermal Engineering and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.08.144. |
Version: | Accepted for publication |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.08.144 |
URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27904 |
Publisher Link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.08.144 |
ISSN: | 1359-4311 |
Appears in Collections: | Published Articles (Chemistry)
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