Abstract
Coaxial mixers as novel mixers have the characteristics of high flexibility and wide adjustability. Three kinds of coaxial mixers consisting of an outer anchor and different inner impellers (six 45° pitched-blade turbine, propeller and Rushton turbine) and single-impeller mixers were investigated and compared in viscous systems. Effects of rotation and pumping modes, outer impeller speed, inner impeller diameter, liquid viscosity, solid volume fraction and particle diameter on the just-suspension impeller speed and power consumption were also studied. Results showed that the coaxial mixers were more energy efficient than the single-impeller mixers, and had greater advantage in systems of higher viscosity and solid volume fraction. Different from single-impeller mixers, adopting up-pumping mode was more energy efficient for coaxial mixers when the anchor speed was relatively high. In addition, the coaxial mixers with the inner up-pumping propeller and six 45° pitched-blade turbine had obvious superiority compared with the combination of anchor and Rushton turbine in terms of power consumption. Based on the experimental data, a new correlation for predicting just-suspension impeller speed of coaxial mixers was proposed.
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