Fluitec Mixer

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Fluitec Mixer

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Introduction to Fluitec Static Mixers
Fluitec has been a leader in static mixing technology since 1993, offering solutions across various industries such as chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, environmental, and food sectors. Their mixers are designed for high efficiency and low energy consumption, making them cost-effective for both continuous and batch processes.
Specifications and Features
Fluitec static mixers feature fixed internal elements that utilize kinetic energy for mixing, requiring minimal maintenance and space. They are suitable for a wide range of viscosities and applications, including mixing pumpable liquids, dispersion, emulsification, and heat transfer of viscous fluids. Mixer geometry is chosen based on the Reynolds number and fluid properties.
Mixing Processes
Static mixers operate under laminar (Re < 20) and turbulent (Re > 2400) flow regimes. Laminar flow involves repeated separation and recombination of fluid layers, while turbulent flow involves random movement of fluid particles. Mixing efficiency is assessed using CFD simulations and experiments with epoxy resins.
Mixing Efficiency and Pressure Drop
The coefficient of variation (COV) measures mixing quality, with a lower COV indicating a more homogeneous mixture. Fluitec mixers are designed to minimize pressure drop, crucial for energy efficiency. The CSE-XC/6 mixer, for example, offers a 50% reduction in pressure drop compared to the CSE-X/8, without compromising mixing efficiency.
Laminar Flow Mixers
Fluitec offers various models for laminar flow, including the CSE-XC/6 and mikromakro® technology, which use different geometries for improved mixing quality. These mixers handle high and low-viscosity processes and extreme viscosity ratios.
Applications and Innovations
Fluitec's mixers are used in small-scale chemical and pharmaceutical processes to large industrial operations. The company continues to innovate, developing new mixer geometries to meet specific customer requirements and challenging mixing tasks.
Conclusion
Fluitec static mixers provide reliable and efficient solutions for various mixing applications. Their continuous development and optimization ensure they remain at the forefront of mixing technology.
Introduction to CSE-X Mixers
Fluitec CSE-X® mixers are designed for high mixing efficiency and short installation lengths, with excellent residence time distribution resembling an ideal plug flow regime. Studies with glucose syrup demonstrate their self-cleanability.
Dispersion in Laminar Flow
In laminar flow, droplet size is influenced by shear and elongational components. Introducing elongational flow can reduce energy requirements for droplet break-up. CSE-X mixers have a high elongational component, reducing energy consumption.
Laminar Mixing Applications
Applications include mixing partially soluble liquids, contacting and heating polymers, and dispersion of gases or liquids. CSE-X mixers are effective due to their high mixing efficiency and narrow residence time distribution.
CSE-X-DS High Performance Mixers
These mixers are ideal for high mixing efficiencies and narrow residence time distributions, used in scenarios with limited space, high viscosity ratios, and slow flow velocities.
Fluitec Melt Mixers
Fluitec CSE-XB/4 and CSE-XC/6 melt mixers are compact and efficient, with low pressure drops, improving melt quality and reducing dye costs by up to 25%.
Static Mixers for Turbulent Flow
The Aquamix and VORTIX mixers are designed for turbulent flow, offering high mixing performance with low energy consumption, suitable for various piping systems and velocities up to 4 m/s.
Liquid Gasification with Static Mixers
In liquid gasification, static mixers achieve high gas transfer rates through intensive phase contact and small gas bubble formation. The CSE-X and CSE-V geometries are commonly used.
Applications in Food and Pharmaceutical Industries
Fluitec mixers, made from stainless steel or Hastelloy, meet high hygiene standards and are suitable for sterile environments, offering excellent self-cleanability.
Static Mixing System Planning
Planning a static mixing system requires ensuring constant dosing of components due to low back-mixing. Key considerations include monitoring streams, injection nozzle position and geometry, controlling pulsations, and implementing an efficient cleaning concept.
Fluitec Products and Applications
Fluitec offers products like Aquamix for food applications and CSE-X/4 for sterile applications, with features like electropolished surfaces and specific fittings.
Quality and Compliance
Quality requirements are governed by the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) 2014/68/EU. Fluitec offers orbitally and manually welded housings, with options for mechanically polished or electropolished surfaces, using high-alloy materials.
Injection Nozzle Optimization
The position and geometry of the injection nozzle are critical for mixing quality. Fluitec has optimized nozzles using CFD calculations to reduce dead spots and utilize vacuum zones for controlled pre-distribution of additive streams.
Technical Specifications and Inquiry Data
The document includes a detailed inquiry data sheet for Fluitec static mixers, covering fluid classification, pressure drop, pipe diameter, material selection, and surface specifications, with increased requirements for industries like food and pharma.
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Static Mixing Advanced mixing technology

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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. Fluitec static mixers Pages 4 – 6 Static mixers for laminar flow Pages 7 – 8 Laminar mixing applications Pages 9 – 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...

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Fluitec static mixers 0.0025 Static mixers are apparatus with fixed internal elements that mix the product flowing through them with the help of kinetic energy only. Since maintenance and wear are negligible, only a comparatively small space is required for installation and the apparatus is suited for a wide viscosity range, static mixers are today a popular alternative for continuous and batch processes. Fluitec mixers are ideal for the following applications • Mixing of pumpable liquids • Dispersion and emulsification of components which are insoluble in each other • Mixing of reactive liquids...

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Fluitec static mixers Pressure drop The pressure drop must be overcome by means of conveying devices such as pumps, extruders or blowers. With Newtonian fluids, it can be described using the following equation for all flow regimes: In the laminar flow regime the Newton number is inversely proportional to the Reynolds number, i.e. NeRe = constant.The following equation is thus used to calculate the pressure drop with laminar flow Equation 6 The Newton number Ne is a parameter for determining the mixer geometry and is directly dependent on the Reynolds number. The diagram below shows the Newton...

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Laminar mixing applications 1.00 relative mixer length (L/D) Systematic investigations Systematic investigations carried out in the search for answers to this question resulted in several novel mixer types.The mixing properties of the different versions were studied both when using polymer melts and in mixing processes with high viscosity ratios. The efficiency of the resulting mixer geometry is comparable to that of the CSE-X/8. The suspicion that layer growth is determined not by the number of bars but Mixing of two epoxy resins in the CSE-XC/6 (top) and CFD calculation (bottom). The cut views...

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CSE-X-DS high performance mixer CSE-X as a residence time mixer A high performance mixer is an X-mixer with additional bars. The high performance mixer is ideal whenever very high mixing efficiencies or very good residence time properties which cannot be realised using conventional static mixers are stipulated. Fluitec CSE-X® mixers are notable for their high mixing efficiency and short installation length. Numerous studies have confirmed the CSE-X® mixer’s excellent residence time distribution. CSE-X-DS high performance mixers are used in the following applications to meet specific requirements:...

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Laminar mixing applications Static mixers for turbulent flow Fluitec melt mixers Fluitec fibre modules High-tech, energy efficient and affordable For many years now, static mixers have been used to homogenise polymer melts, ideally in combination with melt pumps. Reduced pulsations and improved thermal homogeneity are leading to a significantly higher quality of the melt and much higher contouring accuracy of the final products. CSE-X/4 mixer for the man-made fibre industry A homogeneous melt upstream of the spinnerets is one of the key requirements for the production of high quality man-made...

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Static mixers for turbulent flow nozzle must be precisely adjusted to the amount of additive in order to achieve optimum mixing results. σ 10 X 5 Reynolds-Number Concentration X Sample size Ratio of viscosity Today, it is above all the CSE-X and CSE-V geometries which are used for dispersion processes and thus for liquid gasification. The expression kLa is a combination of two factors: Relative Length Coefficient of variation for a typical turbulent mixture The representation of the coefficient of variation as a function of the relative mixing length shows that measuring points such as temperature...

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Food and pharmaceutical industries Fluitec mixers made of stainless steel or Hastelloy have been used throughout the process industry for many years. Fluitec specialises in high quality mixing elements, which is why we are able to meet even the very high – and highly individual – quality requirements for static mixers in sterile processes or food industry applications without any problems. The following tube fittings can be used together with Fluitec mixers: • Dairy fittings acc. to DIN 11851 • Clamp fittings (Tri-clamp) • BioConnect couplings (Neumo) Dosing technology for static mixers Optimised...

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Fluitec mixing + reaction solutions AG, 8413 Neftenbach Other Fluitec products Inquiry data sheet Fluitec Static Mixer Contact: Company: Name: Street: ZIP/Town: Inquiry: Project / Inquiry-Nr: Inquiry requested until: Only budget quotation: I I Yes I I No Process Data: Name fluid: Are the fluids mixable? d Yes □ No ^ Surface tension: mN m-1 Maximal droplet size: Homogeneity as standard deviation in realation to mean value [oVX]: d % □ Maximal allowed pressure drop: bar (Description °f the mixture) Mechanical Data: Planned nominal diameter of the pipe DN Design code: QAD2000 dASME Connections:...

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mixing + reaction solutions mixing + reaction solutions AG Seuzachstrasse 40 8413 Neftenbach Switzerland Deutschland GmbH Auf der Heide 41 58313 Herdecke Germany

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