The Study of Effective Parameters on Drop Size in Agitated Vessels

From the view point of industrial engineering, solvent extraction process because of many of its applications has been interested by a lot of researchers. Solvent extraction process is carried out in various equipments, such as packed column, pulse column, RDC, mixer settler and etc. Generally the study of effective parameters on rate of mass transfer in the extraction processes are very important. One of important effective parameters on mass transfer and separation is drop size and its measurement is very important. Therefore investigation of various parameters on drop size is very important. In this paper the effective operational parameters on drop size such as impeller speed, impeller geometry and its location, hold up, surfactants are investigated in agitated vessels.