Positron Emission Particle Tracking for Liquid‐Solid Mixing in Stirred Tanks

• DOI: 10.1002/ceat.202000177
• Publication Date: 2020-07-06T16:35:35Z
• Authors: Christopher R. K....; Roberto Hart-Vill...; Thomas Ridout; Tzany Kokalova; Jose C. Nogueira-...
• Keywords: Opacity; Suspension; TRACER

Abstract Mixing in stirred tanks is vital to a wide range of industrial processes, typically requiring solids be fully suspended and evenly distributed. The quality suspension mixing measured visually. Such measurements are thus subject human interpretation can only feasibly conducted transparent systems – an uncommon condition systems. Visual homogeneity must also infer full 3D distributions particles solely from the observation limited section thereof. This work details methods by which system's state may quantified with no interpretation, extract information opaque consider data acquired throughout interior given system.