Design and evaluation of additive manufactured highly efficient inclined-wing type continuous mixer
Seoung-Ho Baek1, Jung-Ho Yang2, Cheol-Woo Ha2
1Research Institute of Machinery and Technology, Pusan National University, Geumjeong-Gu, Busan, 46241, Korea.
Abstract:
We develop a novel milli-scale mixer (tilted-wings mixing unit, TWM unit) based on the design for additive manufacturing (DfAM). The proposed tilted-wings mixer has basically designed to have three separate wings that split and combine fluids in order to mix together effectively. Its structure is simple for easy fabrication: two major design parameters of angle among three wings and connecting angle between tilted-unit, which are optimized using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. From the CFD analysis, we obtain the best-combined mixing module from analyses of various combinations of TWM units for a highly effective mixing ratio. The mixing ratio of three combined units reaches near 100%, which is validated by the experiment and analysis. We believe that the proposed milli-scale mixer can be utilized in diverse chemical continuous mixers and reactors for minimizing of use of chemicals that can pollute the environment.
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