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Design and evaluation of additive manufactured highly efficient inclined-wing type continuous mixer

We develop a novel milli-scale mixer (tilted-wings mixing unit, TWM unit) based on the design for additive manufacturing (DfAM). The proposed tilted-wings mixer has basically designed to have three separate wings that split and combine fluids in order to mix together effectively. Its structure is si...

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Autores principales: Baek, Seoung-Ho, Yang, Jung-Ho, Ha, Cheol-Woo, Shim, Patrick Y., Yong, Son, Park, Sang-Hu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9663690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36376452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23809-2
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Sumario:We develop a novel milli-scale mixer (tilted-wings mixing unit, TWM unit) based on the design for additive manufacturing (DfAM). The proposed tilted-wings mixer has basically designed to have three separate wings that split and combine fluids in order to mix together effectively. Its structure is simple for easy fabrication: two major design parameters of angle among three wings and connecting angle between tilted-unit, which are optimized using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. From the CFD analysis, we obtain the best-combined mixing module from analyses of various combinations of TWM units for a highly effective mixing ratio. The mixing ratio of three combined units reaches near 100%, which is validated by the experiment and analysis. We believe that the proposed milli-scale mixer can be utilized in diverse chemical continuous mixers and reactors for minimizing of use of chemicals that can pollute the environment.