WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Multiphase mixing

Chair: Piero Armenante   Co-chair: Richard Cope

08:00 - 08:35

Alberto Brucato

Mixing in unbaffled stirred vessels (KEYNOTE)

08:35 - 09:00

Andrzej W. Pacek

Oxidations of bark suspensions in a stirred tank reactor

09:00 - 09:25

Raj Parthasarathy                    

Enhancing solid-liquid mass transfer and impeller power efficiency in a

mechanically agitated vessel employing dual impellers

09:25 - 09:50

Thomas Wood

Slurryability: What makes a powder difficult to incorporate into a slurry?

09:50 - 10:15

Ken Primrose

New developments in the application of electrical tomography to in-line

and batch mixing

Multiphase mixing

Chair: David Dickey   Co-chair: Inci Ayranci

10:30 - 10:55

Arun Ramachandran

The effect of a yield stress on the drainage of the thin film between two

colliding Newtonian drops

10:55 - 11:20

Katsuhide Takenaka

Mass transfer in solid-liquid system with high concentration

11:20 - 11:45

Alehlí Holguín-Salas

Three-phase dispersion in a pilot proto-fermenter containing mycelial

biomass: characterization of the local bubble size distribution as a function

of the gassed power drawn

11:45 - 12:10

Arthur Etchells

A correlation for cloud height in solid-liquid mixing

12:10 - 12:35

Louis Fradette

A semi-empirical approach for predicting the scale-up effect on the mean

size of solid-stabilized emulsions

Simulations and mixing

Chair: Richard Grenville   Co-chair: Harry Van Den Akker

18:45 - 19:20

Philippe A. Tanguy

Polymer kneading technology: an industrial viewpoint (KEYNOTE)

19:20 - 19:45

Jérôme Morchain

ADENON: a simulation tool to address mixing issues in bioreactors

19:45 - 20:10

Bruno Blais

Understanding Solid-Liquid Mixing Through the Development of a Novel

CFD-DEM Model (PHD STUDENT)

20:10 - 20:35 Jose Nunhez

Investigating the influence of mesh density and some numerical aspects of

CFD modeling in the prediction of the power number, flow number and heat

transfer coefficients for the PBT impeller 

Single phase mixing

Chair: Alvin Nienow   Co-Chair: Luis Sierra

20:50 - 21:15

Eric Janz

The applicability of the use of open impellers at low Reynolds numbers

21:15 - 21:40

Konstantinos Steiros

Theoretical modelling of the steady and transient power number in a

stirred tank

21:40 - 22:05 Justin Walker

The effect of viscosity and impeller geometry on stable vortex formation

in a stirred tank

22:05 - 22:30 John Thomas

Time-accurate blending simulations of transitional flow inside stirred

tanks