Scale process effect on the power consumption characteristics of a novel curved Rushton turbine within a reactor vessel

Abstract In this work, a new curved Rushton turbine (CRT) is investigated in terms of the effects of the reactor size, impeller clearance, and rheological properties of the biopolymer solutions on the power consumption in unbaffled reactor vessels. The results show that the power consumption can be adequately predicted for the given scale geometries. In a logarithmic plot, the power curves of two scales agitated with different concentration solutions in the laminar regime (Reg