Mixing / Heat Transfer Unique mixer / heat exchanger combinations

It was back in 1993 when Fluitec launched its first static mixers in the market. Today, Fluitec is a reliable partner for high quality products whose know-how spans a wide range of mixing, heat transfer and reaction tasks in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, environment and food industries. The Fluitec mixer/heat exchanger Pages 4 – 9 Reactors based on mixer/heat exchangers Pages 10 – 11 Scale-ups Page 12 View of the production shop – apparatus weighing up to 3.5 tons is manufactured in-house The Fluitec management: Daniel Altenburger (Managing Director), Silvano Andreoli (Manager...

The Fluitec mixer/heat exchanger For more than 20 years now, the Fluitec mixer / heat exchanger has simplified heating and cooling of viscous media such as pastes, melts or emulsions. Thanks to its special mixing elements, the CSE-XR mixer / heat exchanger masters the fluid dynamics of both cross-mixing and surface renewal, so that the apparatus is suitable both for exothermic or endothermic chemical reactions and for temperature conditioning of highly viscous fluids (heating or cooling). The CSE-XR technology is constantly evolving and meanwhile delivers optimal performance in a wide range of...

The Fluitec mixer / heat exchanger 1.0 0.75 l 0.5 0.25 Empty tube Mixer/heat exchanger 1st generation Mixer/heat exchanger 3rd generation Velocity and residence time compared when mixer / heat exchangers are used in a laminar flow plug flow reactor (Re < 20) The Fluitec CSE-XR® mixer / heat exchanger provides excellent residence time distribution. Practical experience has shown that, depending on the fluid, the mixer / heat exchanger is absolutely clean after purging with between 2 and 4 times its volume. Provided the customer is familiar with the flow behaviour, Fluitec can design the mixer...

The Fluitec mixer/heat exchanger Temperature curve, shear and mixing in a mixer / heat exchanger the CSE-XR mixer / heat exchanger. It was possible to adjust the temperature profile over the cross-sectional area to 80°C +/- 1.0°C during continuous production. Even momentary temperature fluctuations of up to +/20°C upstream of the mixer / heat exchanger inlet can be compensated thanks to the exchanger’s high mixing efficiency. However, this is conditional on a heat exchanger design that takes account of various additional criteria. Detailed calculation methods exist to facilitate temperature profile...

Reactors based on mixer/heat exchangers Reactors based on mixer-heat exchangers A first-generation mixer / heat exchanger, for example, can be used to mix two highly viscous fluids. The required relative lengths, namely L/D = 12 to 20, enable a considerable quantity of heat to be simultaneously supplied and removed. More complex mixing tasks can be realised with more recent heat exchanger generations. A low-viscosity catalyst, for instance, can be added to a high-viscosity monomer using a third-generation Fluitec mixer / heat exchanger while simultaneously removing the reaction heat. Thanks to...

The Fluitec scale-up system Mixer/heat exchanger for the food industry Our mixer / heat exchangers can be scaled up easily and accurately because a constant surface-to-volume ratio is maintained regardless of the size of the apparatus. The Fluitec mixer / heat exchanger offers excellent in-line cleanability, making it suitable for processing high-viscosity products in the food industry. The large specific heat-exchanging area renders the CSE-XR® mixer / heat exchanger ideal for highly viscous fluids and temperature sensitive media. The design of the mixing elements is simultaneously adapted so...

Typical applications Typical applications Cooling polymers in extrusion processes CSE-XR mixer / heat exchangers are used in extrusion processes to modify the temperature of the melt (adjust the viscosity) and establish optimal conditions for processing. A homogeneous, uniform cooling must be ensured when extruding foams, because there is a risk of maldistribution if the viscosity increases abruptly (clogging of the individual tubes of a multitube heat exchanger). Due to its special design, the CSE-XR mixer / heat exchanger is able to cope with any differences between the viscosity at the inlet...

Multitube heat exchangers Multitube heat exchangers with static mixers Multitube heat exchangers with mixing elements in the multitubes are ideal for product viscosities between 50 and approximately 500 mPas. Various static mixing elements can be installed in the multitubes depending on the heat transfer application. These elements increase the heat transfer from the product to the tube wall, so that smaller sizes can be realised than if the multitube heat exchanger has no mixing elements. Multitube heat exchangers are not suitable for processes where the residence time is critical or for cooling...

Fluitec mixing + reaction solutions AG, 8413 Neftenbach www.fluitec.ch Other Fluitec products Inquiry data sheet Fluitec Mixer / heat exchanger mixing ♦reaction solutions Contact: Company: Name: Street: ZIP/Town: Inquiry: Project / Inquiry-Nr: Inquiry requested until: Process Data: Name fluid: Viscosity of the product at the inlet temperature of the heating / cooling stream (wall viscosity): Rheologie product: □ Newtonian □ Shear thinning ^ Please add a shear rate / viscosity diagram Mechanical Data: Mixing bundle: Design code: Notice: □ Standard configuration Static MixingAdvanced mixing technology...

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