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Industrial mixing processes present multiple optimization challenges to producing desirable products. This book shares the authors' extensive knowledge of mixing research and industrial practice. It features twenty industrial mixing chapters that are purposely light on mixing fundamentals, while heavy on practical mixing applications.
List of contents
0. Front Matter. 1. Mixing Process and Working Media. 2. Mixing Terminology. 3. Industrial Mixing Systems. 4. Stirred Tank Reactors. 5. Hydrodynamics. 6. Blending of Miscible Liquids. 7. Solid-Liquid Mixing/Dispersions. 8. Immiscible Liquid-Liquid Mixing/Dispersion. 9. Gas-Liquid Contactors. 10. Fermenters. 11. Jet Mixing Systems. 12. Inline Motionless Mixers. 13. In-Line Dynamic Mixers.14. High-Viscosity Media Mixing. 15. Emerging and Unconventional Mixing Technologies. 16. Numerical Methods in Fluid Mixing. 17. Heat Transfer. 18. Experimental Techniques in Mixing. 19. Mechanical Design. 20. Technology Implementation and Cost Analysis. Appendix A1. E-book User-Interface for Working Examples. Appendix A2. Unit Conversions and Equivalents. Appendix A3. Image Reproduction Permissions.
About the author
Kishore Kar dedicated 36 years of service to The Dow Chemical Company and retired as an R&D fellow. Currently he is serving as a chemical process technology consultant. Kishore holds 18 US patents and has authored more than 35 publications, including two chapters in the
Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing published by Taylor & Francis Group. During his Dow career, Kishore led the Global Fluid Mechanics and Mixing Discipline. Kishore received his PhD in mechanical engineering (fluid, thermal, and aerospace sciences) from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Richard Cope received his PhD in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA, and spent more than 19 years in chemicals R&D (Dow) and more than 7 years in biopharma R&D (Eli Lilly and Alkermes). In 2017, he conceived/co-designed a mixing experiment for the International Space Station. In 2020, he joined SPX FLOW, the world's largest mixing solutions provider. He has co-authored 19 papers/encyclopedia chapters and 7 US or world patents for mixing technologies. Richard was treasurer of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) from 2012 to 2024 and recipient of the NAMF Mixing Award in 2020.
Juergen Lueske enjoyed 35 years with The Dow Chemical Company. His focus in the Process Engineering group was project planning and process development, with an emphasis on modeling and simulation for large projects. In the Fluid Mechanics and Mixing group, his focus was calculations and modeling of gas-liquid contactors, especially fermenters and bioreactors. He has authored several papers and co-authored two encyclopedia chapters. Juergen received his MS degree in mechanical and process engineering from Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
