Scale-up
One of the riskiest and expensive stages in chemical engineering is the scale up process. Evidence shows that the expense and peril in the scale up process is due to the application of different equipment used in the processing of materials and the scale up methodology. This equipment has geometrical variations that can typically result in […]
Scale Up in Chemical Engineering
“The successful start up and operation of a commercial size unit whose design and operating procedures are in part based upon experimentation and demonstration at a smaller scale of operation.” This whole process is called “scale-up.” (Bentolila, Alshanski, Novoa, & Gilon, 2018). Chemical engineering is all about the conversion of raw products into beneficial ones and this chemical production takes place […]
Mixing Science and Practice
The Purpose of Mixing Let us start out by asking the question: what is the purpose of mixing? Then, we can understand why we need chemical mixing simulation. We carry out mixing in order to affect a process in a desired manner. For example, we blend miscible fluids to make concentrations and temperature more homogeneous […]
Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering
The VisiMix tool allows you to analyze and study most of mixing processes. It is always good to confirm some of these parameters by experimentation; by using VisiMix you can minimize the number of experiments needed. Let us take a look at some of these different phenomena that occur in various mixing equipment in stirred […]