How should a company select impellers for lignocellulosic hydrolysis reactors? Lignocellulosic slurries at high solids concentrations (10-30%) can be quite viscous. The author has seen somewhere the viscosity at a shear rate of 1/s is…
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Hydrofoil Impellers vs. Pitched Blade Turbines in Lignocellulosic Slurries
In a previous article (ref 1), it was stated that both pitched blade turbines and hydrofoils could be successfully used to agitate high-solids lignocellulosic materials, but that the hydrofoil could do the job with less…
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