High Shear Mixing Research Program

		Prof. Richard V. Calabrese  Department of Chemical Engineering University of Maryland  College Park, MD 20742-2111  phone: 301-405-1908  fax: 301-314-9126 email: rvc@eng.umd.edu
		1.  Advisory Board Meeting: Wednessday October 27, 2004 2.  Parking Map 3.  Room Location Map

Develop a fundamental understanding, at least on a mechanistic basis, of the controlling fluid dynamics for both "single" and multiphase processing.

Use this fundamental knowledge to develop a basis for data correlation, process scale-up, and assessment of device performance.

• Focus on prototype of generic Rotor-Stator devices.
• Employ mechanistic model building and computational fluid dynamics with definitive experiments.

• Bring the state of the art for Rotor-Stator mixers toward that currently available for processing in stirred tanks and static mixers.
• Relate fundamental knowledge to process performance.

• Companies can join for a modest annual contribution.
• Membership allows access to continuously updated pages with current and past news, papers, and publications. Find out more about this unique opportunity!