ISSN:
0001-1541
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Instantaneous shadow photography is used to study the mixing of air flowing in a 2-in. square duct with a secondary stream of carbon dioxide entering sidewise from an orifice. Mixing is described in terms of four mixing parameters measured from the shadow photographs, penetration distance, bulk mixing distance, macromixing distance, and the quality of micromixing, as a functon of sidestream: mainstream mass velocity and volume flow ratios, main duct velocity, and the average orifice shroud velocity component parallel to the air flow in the main duct.The first three parameters are reported quantitatively as a function of the variables mentioned. The latter parameter is reported semiquantitatively by means of a scale of grading the micromixing which describes the condition of the schlieren at arbitrary duct lengths downstream from the entrance of the gases. Comparisons are made with previous results from studies of the secondary gas entering sidewise from a tube.Orifice discharge coefficients are correlated as a function of the orifice diameter, orifice Reynolds number, main duct velocity, and orifice shroud velocity. These are presented to aid in the description of the mixing and to be used in the design of similar mixing configurations.
Additional Material:
9 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.690080129
