Common Characteristics of Mixing Impeller Designs In part one of our blog series on types of mixing impellers, we look at the characteristics common to all industrial mixing impeller designs and a list of ProQuip high performance mixing impellers based on shear and viscosity. The impeller is a key component of industrial tank agitator design. In technical terms, […]
Holiday Favorite Has Many Commercial and Homemade Variations Eggnog is a popular seasonal beverage consisting of eggs, cream, sugar, spices and sometimes spirits. It is mostly associated with the American holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. A similar beverage can be found in the Netherlands (advocaat, typically contains alcohol) and Germany (Eierlikör). The origins […]
ProQuip Tank Agitators with ProQuip Axial Pitched Blade Turbine Impellers Used in Many Paint Manufacturing Processes Summer is just past the half-way point and many of us still have a long list of house projects to complete before cold weather returns. Windows may still need to be cleaned, garden beds may still need […]
A major requirement for industrial mixer design is a thorough understanding of the mixed material viscosity. This is especially true for high viscosity fluids. Most viscous fluids are also non-Newtonian. This means the fluid does not have a fixed value for viscosity. There is an “apparent viscosity” at the mixing impeller that is related to […]
Reynolds number is a basic principle of fluid mechanics and plays a prominent role in industrial mixing. The Reynolds number concept was first introduced over 150 years ago by George Gabriel Stokes, a mathematics professor at Cambridge. However, Stokes did not name Reynolds number. This distinction goes to Arnold Sommerfeld (strangely also not named Reynolds), […]
Welcome to our new vlog series on industrial mixing basics. These vlogs (a blog with primarily video content) focus on the fundamental principles of industrial mixing. They should be especially helpful to those new to industrial mixing, but “veterans” may also like them as a refresher. The first topic in our industrial mixing vlog series […]
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Tank Agitator Design (Part 2 of 4) We hope you found Part 1 of our blog series on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) helpful. In it, we discussed how computational fluid dynamics predicts flow patterns in both simple and complex geometries including mixing applications. The second part of our blog series on Computational […]
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Tank Agitator Design (Part 1 of 4) Happy New Year from ProQuip industrial tank agitators! We hope you had a safe and happy holiday season as well as a successful 2016. We are starting out the New Year with a four part blog series on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The first […]
I hope you enjoyed our last blog on the history of glue and the use of ProQuip Doubly-Pitched HiFlow™ impellers in many modern glue and adhesive manufacturing processes. Modern glue and adhesive applications are examples of mixing applications with mid-process viscosity changes. In this blog, we look closer at these applications and how ProQuip tank […]
And ProQuip Tank Agitators with ProQuip Doubly-Pitched HiFlow™ Impellers are Working Overtime to Meet Demand I hope you enjoyed some barbecue after reading our last blog (I know I did). In this blog, we turn the page on summer activities and discuss a topic very common to fall – back to school. For most, […]
