Computer aided design of fluid mixing equipment : a guide and tool for practicing engineers Front cover Half title Title Copyright Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Best Use of Methods Offered Here Other Resources Consultants Vendors Couses and Videos Training Resources Available for Fluid Mixing Technology Appendix 1.1: Fluid mixing courses Appendix 1.2: Videos YouTube and IndustrialMixing Handbooks YouTube Videos Acknowledgements REFERENCES Chapter 2 Impeller fundamentals Dimensionless Parameters Flow and Shear Torque per unit volume Impeller Pumping Efficiency Power producing Flow and Power producing Shear Radial Flow Impellers EXAMPLE PROBLEM 2.1. Viscous Syrup Bending with a Side Entering Agitator in a 30 kgal Tank Problem Statement Problem Solution EXAMPLE PROBLEM 2.2. Viscous Syrup Blending with Propeller Pump in a 30 kgal Tank REFERENCES Chapter 3 Equipment selection Introduction Economy of Scale is Increasing the Size and Complexity of Agitators A Historical Perspective Seventy Five Years Ago Forty Years Ago Twenty Years Ago (the mid 1990s) Move Ahead to Today Examples of Impeller Improvements from the 1970s to Today Fundamentals for Effective Selection of Fluid Mixing Equipment The Standard Geometry Flow and Shear EXAMPLE PROBLEM 3.1. Making Lye Soap in the Laboratory and in 55 gal (200 L) Drums EXAMPLE PROBLEM 3.2. Selecting a Commercially Available Agitator EXAMPLE PROBLEM 3.3. Impeller Selection Power Requirements Agitator Vendors: Websites and Videos REFERENCES Chapter 4 Impeller power and pumping Impeller Power Requirements Standard Impeller Speeds Variable Frequency Drives Power Correlations for Standard Impeller Geometries Impeller Pumping Correlations EXAMPLE PROBLEM 4.1. P Q tto tb 6BD in 3 m Fully Baffled Vessel.