Scaling Theory for Pulsed Jet Mixed Vessels, Sparging, and Cyclic Feed Transport Systems for Slurries

Kuhn, William L. ; Rector, David R. ; Rassat, Scot D. ; Enderlin, Carl W. ; Minette, Michael J. ; Bamberger, Judith A. ; Josephson, Gary B. ; Wells, Beric E. ; Berglin, Eric J.

关键词: scaling;    pulse jet mixing;    sparging;    transport;    non-Newtonian;    slurry;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1096126
RP-ID  :  PNNL-22816
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1096126

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

This document is a previously unpublished work based on a draft report prepared by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) in 2012. Work on the report stopped when WTP???s approach to testing changed. PNNL is issuing a modified version of the document a year later to preserve and disseminate the valuable technical work that was completed. This document establishes technical bases for evaluating the mixing performance of Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) pretreatment process tanks based on data from less-than-full-scale testing, relative to specified mixing requirements. The technical bases include the fluid mechanics affecting mixing for specified vessel configurations, operating parameters, and simulant properties. They address scaling vessel physical performance, simulant physical performance, and ???scaling down??? the operating conditions at full scale to define test conditions at reduced scale and ???scaling up??? the test results at reduced scale to predict the performance at full scale. Essentially, this document addresses the following questions: ??? Why and how can the mixing behaviors in a smaller vessel represent those in a larger vessel? ??? What information is needed to address the first question? ??? How should the information be used to predict mixing performance in WTP? The design of Large Scale Integrated Testing (LSIT) is being addressed in other, complementary documents.