23rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

A Modeling Approach for Dispersive Mixing of Oil in Water Emulsions

Arend Dubbelboer^a, Jo Janssen^b, Hans Hoogland^b, Ashvin Mudaliar^b, Edwin Zondervan^a, Peter M.M. Bongers^b and Jan Meuldijk^a,    ^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 ...