Liquid‐Liquid contacting in unbaffled, agitated vessels

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Abstract
Drop size and dispersed‐phase holdup were measured for liquid dispersions in covered, unbaffled agitated vessels with no gas‐liquid interface and hence no vortex for batch and continous flow. Vessel diameters of 0.245 and 0.372 m, turbine impellers of diameters 0.0762 and 0.127 m in two locations, four organic‐ and three water‐dispersed systems of a wide range of properties, and a wide range of operating conditions were studied. The data for average drop diameter and dispersed‐phase holdup, from which specific interfacial area may be computed, were successfully correlated through modification of the theories of maximum drop size in an isotropically turbulent fluid.