In: Mechanical Engineering
1. A practical method of doing the scale-up of cylindrical mixing tanks and agitator blades is to keep constant the power per unit volume of tank. It is desired to increase by 3 times the volume of a mixing tank. How should the tank diameter and stirrer speed change? Consider that the mixing tanks are geometrically similar. The power supplied to the agitator, P, can be considered as a function of the diameter of the agitator, D, its angular velocity, w, density, d, and viscosity, u, of the liquid.