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Identical Feed Drops in a Flow Vessel May not Always Be Desirable
Author(s) -
Das P. K.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4125(200011)23:11<1001::aid-ceat1001>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - breakage , mechanics , drop (telecommunication) , residence time distribution , pressure drop , residence time (fluid dynamics) , continuous flow , flow (mathematics) , thermodynamics , materials science , mathematics , physics , engineering , mechanical engineering , composite material , geotechnical engineering
In this paper, the effect of feed size and daughter drop size distributions on the steady‐state drop size distribution in a continuous flow vessel is discussed. For identical sizes of feed drops, a new criterion has been proposed to ensure the complete breakage of the feed drops giving rise to smooth continuous drop size distributions. This has been predicted on the basis of two competing time scales, namely, breakage and residence times.