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Hydraulic Mixing

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Practical Aspects of Chemical Engineering

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Hydraulic mixing is a motionless mixing technology utilizing pressurized gas to move liquid periodically from one compartment to the other in a continuous mode. The following paper discusses experimental set-up, observed phenomena, results and their analyses in the view of Reynolds number, oscillatory Reynolds number and modified Reynolds number for hydraulic mixing. The results presented have proven the feasibility of mixing in a hydraulic mixer and have shown the need for further studies which would focus on the flow patterns governing the observed phenomena regarding the formation of the convex–concave liquid interfaces and long-time unmixed regions.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by PUT research grant no. 03/32/DSPB/0702.

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  1. Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Technology, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Piotr Tomasz Mitkowski & Waldemar Szaferski

  2. Institute of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Bioengineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland

    Mariusz Adamski

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Correspondence to Piotr Tomasz Mitkowski .

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  1. Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Marek Ochowiak

  2. Institute of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Szymon Woziwodzki

  3. Institute of Metrology, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland

    Michał Doligalski

  4. Poznan University of Technology , Poznan, Poland

    Piotr Tomasz Mitkowski

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Mitkowski, P.T., Szaferski, W., Adamski, M. (2018). Hydraulic Mixing. In: Ochowiak, M., Woziwodzki, S., Doligalski, M., Mitkowski, P. (eds) Practical Aspects of Chemical Engineering. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73978-6_20

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