Abstract
Rotating packed beds (RPBs), as the typical chemical intensification devices, have been widely applied in liquid-phase fast reactions and precipitation processes. In this study, three novel tube-tube premixers were designed, and three-dimensional CFD models of the flow and mixing processes for non-Newtonian fluids in tube-tube premixers were established. Meanwhile, the micromixing efficiency in RPBs with different tube-tube premixers was experimentally investigated. The results show that TG-2 premixer exhibits the best premixing performance. The segregation index decreases as the rotational speed or flow rate increases, indicating the increase in micromixing efficiency. With the increase of CMC mass fraction, the segregation index initially decreases and then increases. Moreover, the micromixing efficiency of TG-0-RPB is the highest in aqueous solution, the micromixing efficiency of TG-4-RPB is the highest in 0.2 wt.% CMC system, and the micromixing efficiency of TG-2-RPB is the highest when the CMC concentrations is equal to or greater than 0.4 wt.%. The micromixing times of non-Newtonian fluid in RPBs range from 2 to 10 ms.
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