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19 2 No.2 Vol.19 2005 4 Journal of Chemical Engineering of Chinese Universities Apr. 2005 1003-9015(2005)02-0169-06 , , , ( , 100029) FLUENT (MRF)k-ε CBY (CFD) TQ027.1 TQ027.2 A Numerical Simulation of Mixing Process in a Stirred Tank with Hydrofoil Impeller ZHANG Guo-juan, MIN Jian, GAO Zheng-ming, SHI Li-tian (School of Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China) Abstract: Stirred reactors are widely used in many industrial processes and the mixing time is one of the key parameters for the reactor design. The mixing process in a stirred tank of 0.476m diameter with single narrow blade hydrofoil CBY impeller was numerically simulated by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package FLUENT 6.0. The multi-reference frame (MRF) and standard k - turbulent model were used in the simulation. The mixing time predicted by CFD is in good agreement with the experiment. The effects of tracer feeding and detecting positions on mixing time were investigated. The mixing process is dominated by the flow field in the stirred tank. For certain detecting positions, comparing with the tracer feeding at the liquid surface, the mixing time detected is much shorter when the tracer is feeded at the impeller region. For certain feeding positions , the shortest mixing time is detected by the detectors located at the bottom region, the next shortest and the considerably longer mixing time are detected by th