Optimizing Mix Performance - an Update

摘要

This paper presents a discussion of mixing considerations and their importance to coating operations, along with some recent information. Mixing is defined as the reduction in inhomogeneity for a desired process result. Such inhomogeneity can be due to variations in concentration, temperature, or phase. For coating, our objective is on making a uniform product, so our mixing focus will be on uniform concentration. Mixing is used to support a wide variety of processes, but we will concentrate on blending miscible liquids in mix tanks. This paper is complementary to, and an update of, a presentation, "Optimizing Mix Performance", made at the 2008 AIMCAL Fall Technical Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC, October 19-22, 2008.