Mixing and mapping 4E037 Dr. ir. Patrick D. Anderson Whoog Polymeertechnologie, MaTe, W

Relevance of laminar mixing flows Polymer processing – improve material properties – mixing of existing polymers is cheaper than developing new polymers Process industry – heat transport – enhancement of reaction speeds Food industry – structure development

Mixing and mapping: Project goals Basics of distributive mixing Basics of the mapping method Optimization of mixing protocol: Cavity mixing flow Optimization of mixing protocol: Journal bearing flow Optimization of mixing geometry: Kenics mixer Choice of mixing goal Choice of mixing measure Intensity of segregation Scale of segregation ….. DEVELOP YOUR OWN MIXING PROTOCOL EXPERIMENTS