FINAL REPORT

NAME: Faye Y. Santiago COURSE & YEAR: BS ChE-4 DATE PERFORMED: January 15, 2013 DATE SUBMITTED: February 08, 2013 ASSIGNED TASK: Tachometer Reader

AGITATION

I.

OBJECTIVES: a.) Effect of speed of rotation on power requirement for Baffled and unbaffled tanks. To show the relationship between the power number against Reynolds number for baffled and unbaffled tanks.

II.

MATERIALS & EQUIPMENTS: Pails 3 liters beaker Four bladed pitched impeller Tachometer Stop Watch

III.

SKETCH:

With Baffles

Without Baffles

IV. PROCEDURE: 1.) The container was filled with water (tank is without baffles). 2.) The impeller was attached to the agitator. 3.) The impeller was immersed in the water inside the container such that its elevation was about 4 inches. 4.) The speed was measured using a tachometer. 5.) The baffle strips was placed in the container repeating steps 1 to 4. V. DATA & RESULTS:

Density (kg/m3) 1000

Diameter (mm) 46.55

Viscosity (kg/(m.s) 0.0008561200

Without Baffles Trial

1 2 3

With Baffles Speed (RPS)

13.5 13 12.63333333

Power
250 250 250

Speed(RPM)
810 780 758

Trial
1 2 3

Power
250 250 250

Speed (RPM)
705 720 690

Speed(RPS)
11.75 12 11.5

Trial
1 2 3

NRe
34169.48997 32903.9533 31975.89307

NP
0.67 0.67 0.67

P(Watts)
0.360308523 0.321738688 0.2679602681

Trial
1 2 3

NRe
29740.11 30372.88 29107.34

NP
1.27 1.27 1.27

P(Watts)
0.45031431 0.47967368 0.42217807

VI. CALCULATIONS:

Without baffles: Trial 1:

Np from McCabes Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering Figure 9.14 is 0.67

0.36031 Watts

Trial 2:

0.321738688 Watts

Trial 3:

0.2679602681 Watts

With Baffles: Trial 1:

Np from McCabes Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering is 1.27 if Reynold's Number (NRe) is greater than 10,000.

0.45031431 Watts

Trial 2:

= 0.47967368 Watts

Trial 3:

= 0.42217807 Watts

VII.

DATA ANALYSIS:

In the experiment, based from the data, as the power requirement in agitation process in both with or without baffles increases the Reynolds number increases too. Agitation process with baffles requires greater power than agitation process without baffles because more power vortex does not occur in the process to attain proper mixing. Baffles are often included in designing the agitator to reduce tangential motion; without the baffles, the liquid is simply swirled around with little mixing since the flow is uniform in the same direction. It is recommended in the experiment that impellers should also be changed; changing the impeller would affect the power requirement in agitation process because with different types of impellers, mixing effectiveness varies. Changing also the type of fluid aside from water should also be considered for comparison purposes and to observe the effects on the agitated liquid.

VIII.

APPLICATION TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING:

In processing industries, many operations are dependent to effective agitation and mixing fluids. Generally, agitation refers to forcing a fluid to flow in a circulatory or other pattern inside a vessel by mechanical means. Mixing usually implies the taking of two or more separate phase, such as a fluid and a powdered solid or two fluids, causes them to be randomly distributed through one another. There are a number of purposes for agitating fluids, here are the following: Blending of two miscible liquids, such as ethyl alcohol and water. Dissolving solids in liquids, such as salt and water. Dispersing a gas in liquid as fine bubbles, such as oxygen from air in a suspension of microorganisms for fermentation or for the activated sludge process in waste management. Suspending of fine solid particles in a liquid, as in the catalytic hydrogenation of a liquid, where solid catalyst particles and hydrogen bubbles and dispersed in the liquid. Agitation of the fluid to increase heat transfer between the fluid and a coil or jacket in the vessel wall.