A Modeling approach for dispersive mixing of oil in water emulsions

Arend Dubbelboer*, Jo Janssen, Hans Hoogland, Ashvin Mudaliar, Edwin Zondervan, Peter M.M. Bongers, Jan Meuldijk

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Abstract

A special type of a high pressure homogenizer valve was studied for the dispersive mixing of oil-in-water emulsions. Various hydrodynamic regimes and flow fields were identified using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS and, for each regime the stable droplet sizes were estimated. Experimental validation was carried out using a coarse emulsion containing 10 wt% sunflower oil stabilized with Pluronic F68, which was dispersed in the homogenizer apparatus. The change in oil droplet size with pressure drop is attributed to the high speedjet leaving the gap.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)841-846
Number of pages6
JournalComputer Aided Chemical Engineering
Volume32
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
EventEuropean Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-23 - Lappeenranta, Finland
Duration: 9 Jun 201312 Jun 2013

Keywords

  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Dispersive mixing
  • Emulsification

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