A Modeling Approach for Dispersive Mixing of Oil in Water Emulsions

Arend Dubbelboera, Jo Janssenb, Hans Hooglandb, Ashvin Mudaliarb, Edwin Zondervana, Peter M.M. Bongersb and Jan Meuldijka,    aTechnical University of Eindhoven, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, PO Box513, 5600 MBEindhoven, TheNetherlands, bStructured Materials & Process Science, Unilever Research, Olivier van Noortlaan 120, 1330AC, Vlaardingen, TheNetherlands

Abstract

A special type of a high pressure homogenizer valve was studied for the dispersive mixing of oil-in-water emulsions. Various hydrodynamic regimes and flow fields were identified using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS and, for each regime the stable droplet sizes ...

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