Chapter 12: Agitated vessels
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| 12.1 | Introduction to Agitated Jacketed Vessels | 3 |
| 12.1.1 | Agitated vessel related important references | 3 |
| 12.1.2 | Purpose of agitated vessels | 3 |
| 12.2 | Process Design | 4 |
| 12.3 | Types of Vessels | 4 |
| 12.3.1 | Designs | 5 |
| 12.4 | Mixing types and purposes | 9 |
| 12.4.1 | Homogenizing | 9 |
| 12.4.2 | Solid / Liquid Mixing | 10 |
| 12.4.3 | Liquid-Liquid dispersion | 10 |
| 12.4.4 | Gas-liquid Dispersion | 10 |
| 12.4.5 | Heat Transfer | 11 |
| 12.5 | Vortex Formation and Baffles | 11 |
| 12.5.1 | Vortex | 11 |
| 12.5.2 | Preventing vortex | 11 |
| 12.6 | Types of Agitators | 12 |
| 12.7 | Types of jackets, Coils | 24 |
| 12.7.1 | Matching Jacket Types to the Heat Transfer Media | 25 |
| 12.7.2 | Conventional Jackets | 25 |
| 12.7.3 | Half-Pipe Coil Jackets | 27 |
| 12.7.4 | Dimple Jackets (also known as plate coils) | 27 |
| 12.7.5 | Draft Tubes | 28 |
| 12.8 | Material of Constructions | 29 |
| 12.9 | Agitator Drive system | 31 |
| 12.9.1 | Shaft seals | 33 |
| 12.10 | Process Design of Agitated Vessels | 35 |
| 12.10.1 | Calculation Method for Agitated Reactor with Limpet Coil Jacket | 36 |
| 12.10.2 | Calculation for Jacketed Agitated Reactor | 47 |
| 12.11 | Power Requirement | 55 |
| 12.11.1 | Agitator Power Calculation | 55 |
| 12.11.2 | Power Number Curves for Various Type of Impeller | 59 |
| 12.12 | Calculated Example of Process Design of Agitated Vessel | 64 |
| 12.13 | Special Coverage on All Glass equipment | 73 |
| 12.14 | References | 85 |
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