AGITATION

AND MIXING
PRESENTATIONOUTLINE

 -Definitions
 -Purposes of agitation
 -Devices to produce agitation
 -Conclusion
DEFINITIONS
AGITATION
 It refers to the induced motion of a
“homogenous” material in a specified way,
usually in circulatory pattern inside some sort
of container.
MIXING
 Mixing the random distribution, into and
through one another, of two or more initially
separate phases.
PURPOSES OF AGITATION

 Suspending solid particles Blending miscible

 liquids Dispersing a gas through the liquid
 Dispersing a second liquid to form an emulsion
 or suspension
Promoting heat transfer

DEVICES TO PRODUCE
AGITATION
 IMPELLERS

DEFINITION
 The rotating part of a
centrifugal pump,
compressor, or other
machine designed to move

a fluid by rotation is called
Impeller.
OR

A rotor used to increase (or
decrease in case of
ce
turbines) the pressure and
flow of a fluid.
IMPELLERS
 Impeller agitators divided into two classes.
AXIAL-FLOWIMPELLERS
 Those impellers that generate currents parallel
with the axis of the impeller shaft are called
Axial-Flow Impellers.

Axial-flowimpel er
RADIAL-FLOWIMPELLERS
 Those impellers that generate currents an a
radial or tangential direction are c a lle d
radial flow impellers.

Radial-
TYPES OF IMPELLERS

 Three main types of impellers for low-to moderate

viscosity liquids are.
PROPELLERS
 A propeller is an axial-flow, high speed
impeller for liquids of low viscosity.

 Small propellers turn at full speed either 1,150

or 1,750 rpm.

 Larger propellers turn at 400 to 800 rpm.

PROPELLERS (cont…..)
 The ratio of distance to the propeller diameter
is known as pitch of the propeller.

 A propeller with a pitch 1.0 is said to have

square pitch.

 Propellers rarely exceeds 18 inch in diameter.

TURBINES
There are 4 types of turbine impeller

 The straight-blade turbine

 Disc turbine
 Concave blade CD-6 disc turbine
 Pitched-blade turbine
The straight-blade turbine
 The simple pushes the liquid
radially and tangentially with
almost no vertical motion at
the impeller.

 The current it generate

travel outward to the vessel
wall and then flow either
upward or downward.

 Such impellers sometimes

called p a d d le s . straight-blade turbine
 Disc turbine

 The disc turbine with multiple straight blades

mounded on a horizontal disc.

 Useful for dispersing a gas in a liquid.

 Concave blade CD-6 disc
turbine
 It is also used for
gas dispersion.

 Consists of six
concave blades.
 Pitched-blade turbine

 Used when good

overall circulation
important.

 Because it provides
some axial flow in
addition to the radial
flow.
 HIGH EFFICENCY
IMPELLERS
 The high efficiency impeller E-
3 has three slanted blades that
are crimped to decrease the
blade angle near the tip.

 The A3 1 0 fluid fo il im p e lle r

uses air foil shaped blades with
taper so that they are narrower at
the tip than their edges.

 Used to mix low-or moderate-

viscosity liquids.
CONCLUSION
 In the whole it is concluded that during
agitation or mixing process “ Impellers
agitators are widely used to circulate the liquid
through the vessel in which the dispersion of
liquids and gases into other liquids like mixing
of stiff paste, elastomers and dry solids
powders takes place.”
Thank You
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