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Analysis of drop size distributions in lean liquid‐liquid dispersions
Author(s) -
Narsimhan Ganesan,
Ramkrishna Doraiswami,
Gupta Jai P.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690260614
Subject(s) - breakage , liquid liquid , drop (telecommunication) , dispersion (optics) , mechanics , similarity (geometry) , population , materials science , thermodynamics , statistical physics , mathematics , chromatography , chemistry , physics , engineering , computer science , optics , telecommunications , image (mathematics) , demography , artificial intelligence , sociology , composite material
Experimental measurements of transient drop size distributions in a stirred liquid‐liquid dispersion (with low dispersed phase fraction) have been used concomitantly with population balance theory to recover the transition probability of droplet breakage, based on a similarity concept. The data remarkably uphold the proposed similarity hypothesis, and the estimated probability function displays the same qualitative trend as the model due to Narsimhan et al. (1979).