Mass Transfer from Suspended Solid Spheres in Agitated Power Law Fluids

✍ Scribed by P. Lal; S.N. Upadhay

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(81)80134-0

✦ Synopsis

A knowledge of mass transfer between particulate matter and agitated nonNewtonian fluids is needed in many industrial operations such as fermentarion, microbial extraction of meta1s, polymer processing, wastewater treatment, etc. The available published literature in this area is restricted only to gas dispersions [1] where the resistance to mass transfer occurs in both continuous and disperse phases. To the best of our knowledge, the only pub1ished informarion in this field where all the resistance is confined to the continuous phase is that of Keey et al. [2], who measured mass transfer coefficients for the dissolution of o-nitrophenol spheres suspended in pseudoplastic fluids in a batch mixer. A complete understanding of the mass transfer behaviour of part1culate dispersions in agitated non-Newtonian fluids, therefore, needs additional information. We present here some preliminary results of our experimental work in this area.