- Title
- Liquid-liquid mixing using micro-fluidised beds
- Creator
- Doroodchi, Elham; Sathe, Mayur; Boyes, Andrea; Evans, Geoffrey; Moghtaderi, Behdad
- Relation
- 14th European Conference on Mixing. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Mixing (Warsaw, Poland 10-13 September, 2012) p. 83-88
- Relation
- http://mixing14.eu/Proceedings.php
- Publisher
- Warsaw University of Technology
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- This study experimentally investigates the application of a solid-liquid micro-fluidised bed as a micro-mixing device. The experiments were performed in a borosilicate capillary tube with an internal diameter of 1.2 mm (i.e. near the upper-limit dimension of a micro-fluidic system) using borosilicate particles with a mean diameter of 98 μm. Refractive index matching technique using sodium iodide solution was employed to achieve a transparent fluidised bed. Mixing performance of the micro-fluidised bed in terms of mixing time was investigated using dye dilution technique. The preliminary results showed that the mixing time in a micro-fluidised bed can be reduced by 1/8th of the time required for liquid-liquid mixing in a capillary tube. The rise in the mixing rate was considered to be due to secondary transversal mass transport caused by passive chaotic advection.
- Subject
- micro-fluidised bed; micro-mixer; liquid-liquid mixing; mixing time; refractive index matching technique; dye dilution technique
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062739
- Identifier
- uon:17144
- Identifier
- ISBN:9788390665887
- Language
- eng
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