• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1957-1962
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• 2004

The objective of this study is to perform the numerical investigation of flow characteristics in static mixers. Simulations are carried out for mixers consisting of up to six Kenics and PPM elements placed end-to-end at an angle of $90^{\circ}$and for a range of Reynolds number($1{\leq}Re{\leq}100$). The pressure drop across a six-element Kenics mixer is computed and compared with the previous experimental correlations. The results are in good agreement with the previous correlations. The simulated flow field of Kenics mixer is extremely complex and contains regions of transverse flow that is dominated by the interaction of vortices produced by the mixer elements.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1955-1960
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• 2003

Static mixers have found a large range of applications, including blending, reaction, dispersion, heat transfer and mass transfer. All static mixers have in common a straight pipe or transfer tube into which individual elements are inserted to cut, fold, twist and re-combine the mixing fluid. The operations virtually ensure uniformity in composition, concentration, viscosity and temperature. The objective of this study is to perform the experimental investigations of mixing characteristics for three mixing element types. The resulting mixing patterns were recorded with a digital camera. OPTIMAS was used to analysis the visualized images. The results clearly indicated that the mixing characteristics was highly influenced by the mixer types or mixing mode.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.123-128
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• 2010

The continuous transesterification of mixed fat was done on the plug flow reactor packed with the static mixers. The transesterification using 0.5 wt% KOH, 0.8 wt% TMAH and mixed catalyst[40 v/v% KOH(0.5 wt%)+60 v/v% TMAH(0.8 wt%)] was conducted with the changes of molar ratios, weight percentage of beef, flow rates and number of static mixer's elements at $65^{\circ}C$. The overall conversion of mixed fat at 1:8 molar ratio, 50 wt% of beef and 24 of static mixer's elements increased until 0.7mL/min of flow rate. The overall conversion of mixed fat showed 96% at those conditions. So, the optimum operating conditions on tublar reactor were 1:8 molar ratio, 50 wt% of beef, 0.7 mL/min of flow rate and 24 of static mixer' s elements.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.506-513
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• 2007

One of the most widely used static mixers is Sulzer type mixer. However the structure of the element is so complicated that the mixing efficiency is better than others, whereas the pressure drop is larger than the others. Therefore new elements are necessary to reduce the pressure drop and to minimize the decrease of the mixing efficiency compared with the Sulzer ones. The objectives of this study are to develop new static mixer and to perform the experimental investigation in order to evaluate the performance of the new one, and to investigate the applicability of the one in an inline coagulant mixing system for water treatment, The pressure drops of the new static mixer elements were about 4-12% lower than that of the Sulzer SMX one, and the mixing efficiency of the Sulzer SMX one was about 2-5% higher than that of the new ones. The inline coagulant mixing system with a new static mixer element performed significantly better than the traditional mechanical mixing system for turbidity removal.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.299-304
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• 2003

Static mixer consists of a straight pipe of circular cross section into which individual elements are inserted to cut, fold, twist and re-combine the mixing fluid. The number of elements and their shape required in any application depend on the complexity of the mixing process. The objectives of this study are to develop a new static mixer and to perform the experimental investigation of pressure drop in order to evaluate the performance of the new one. The mixing fluid used is Glycerin. The pressure drop is measured using a hydraulic manometer and the correlation of Z-factor is suggested as a function of Re. The Z-factors of SSC and YNU mixer are about 40% lower than and 4% higher than that of the Sulzer one.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.327-334
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• 2002

Transesterfication of vegetable oils and methanol with alkaline catalyst was carried out to produce biodiesel fuel by continuous process. The process consists of two static mixers, one tubular reactor and two coolers and gave $96{\sim}99$% of methyl ester yield from soybean oil and rapeseed oil. Experimental variables were the molar ratios of methanol to vegetable oil, alkaline catalyst contents, flow rates, mixer element number. The optimum ranges of operating variables were as follows; reaction temperature of $70^{\circ}C$, l:6 of molar ratio of methanol to oil, O.4%(w/w) sodium hydroxide based on oil, static mixer elements number of 24 and 4 min. residence time.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.437-443
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 라인믹서 내의 압력손실과 혼화성능에 대한 혼합요소의 영향을 해석하였다. 기체와 액체가 혼합된 고농도 오존수 장치는 단체급식시설의 살균 및 소독, 양식장의 수질관리 등 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있다. 그러나 기존에 사용되는 장치는 가압방식을 사용하여 부피가 매우 크다. 최근에는 기후 변화로 강수량이 감소하여 지하수 및 지표수의 오염으로 음용수의 살균은 매우 중요하다. 따라서 기존의 장치와 대비하여 작은 공간을 사용하면서도 정수기능을 갖는 라인믹서형 기체-액체 혼합장치의 개발이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 라인믹서 장치 내에 삽입한 혼합요소인 static mixer의 개수, 오리피스의 형태와 개수, 오리피스에 부착된 베인의 모양에 따른 유입유체의 혼화상태와 유동특성을 전산유체역학 모사를 통해 해석하고 혼화상태에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 곡면의 베인을 부착한 오리피스를 라인믹서에 사용한 경우 static mixer를 사용한 경우와 비교하여 비슷한 혼화정도를 나타내면서 압력손실양은 50% 이상 감소하는 것을 확인하였다.