Process and device for improving the quality of mixing of liquid especially viscous media
AssigneeHoechst Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHelmut Heine, Karl Kuhn, Wolfgang Sittig
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for improving the quality of mixing of liquid especially viscous media in stirred tank reactors, wherein a change in direction of the medium set in motion is brought about at one point or at several points of the inner wall of the reactor at different levels, in a direction vertical to the angle of approaching flow (attack). The process is especially suitable for fermentation reactions. The invention moreover relates to a corresponding stirred tank reactor.
Claims11
A reaction vessel for intimate and homogeneous mixing of liquid viscous media which comprises, in combination, a mixing vessel having a mixing chamber, inlet and outlet means for charging gas and liquid viscous media to said vessel, mixing means for effecting liquid media flow, aeration means, cooling means comprising a cooling jacket cooperating with the exterior wall of said mixing vessel and flow deflector means comprising holding means for positioning one or more deflector units each unit having a plurality of baffle elements located at one or more points along the periphery of the vessel at a distance from the vessel wall equal to 1% to 10% of the vessel diameter and located at a plurality of points along the longitudinal axis of the vessel and separated from each other along said longitudinal axis at a distance equal to 3% to 30% of the vessel diameter, said baffle elements being positioned towards the direction of approaching liquid media flow such that said direction of flow is controllably varied along a defined path which is vertical to said direction of approaching flow.
A process for intimate and homogeneous mixing of liquid viscous media in a mixing vessel wherein a liquid viscous media is charged to said vessel, the process comprising stirring said liquid viscous media to effect flow thereof in radial and tangential direction relative to the vessel wall and deflecting said flow in a defined path vertical to the direction of flow effected by stirring said liquid and increasing the flow of said liquid viscous media near the vessel wall by means of one or more deflector units each having a plurality of baffle elements located at one or more points along the periphery of the vessel at a distance from the vessel wall equal to 1% to 10% of the vessel diameter and located at a plurality of points along the longitudinal axis of the vessel and separated from each other along said longitudinal axis at a distance equal to 3% to 30% of the vessel diameter wherein said baffle elements are positioned towards the direction of approaching liquid media flow.
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