Process
A wide variety of process applications take advantage of static mixing technology including:
Static Mixer
High Efficiency SMX element
SMV Element
Laminar
Flow
- High Viscosity Mixing
- High – Low Viscosity Mixing
- Heat Transfer Enhancement
Turbulent
Turbulent
- Low Viscosity Liquids Mixing
- Gas Mixing
- Dispersion of Immiscible Liquids
- Gas-Liquid Contacting
Industrial
Applications
Most fluid processing industries use static mixers with a very broad range of applications including the following short sample listing:
Chemical
Industry
- Dispersing immiscible liquids in washing and extraction operations
- Mix gases with air in front of catalytic reactors such as in the production of Nitric Acid
- Dissolve gases into liquids such as NH3, SO2, Cl2
- Mix Reactive materials in short length
Food
Industry
- Blend fruit juice concentrates
- Add CO2 to fruit juices, wine, beer, etc.
- Dilute concentrates
- Heating and cooling chocolate
Water & Wastewater
Treatment
- pH control of waste water with acids/bases
- Flocculants dilution and addition to waste water
- Dissolving CO2, O2, Cl2, ozone into water
- Mix ground and surface waters
- Aerate drinking water
Oil, Gas &
Petrochemicals
- Blend crude oil from various storage tanks to provide uniform feed to refinery
- Contact crude oil and water to optimize desalter performance
- Blend additives into gasoline, fuel oil, lubricating oils
- Mix steam and methane feed to reformer
- Contact used lubricating oils with sulfuric acid for waste oil regenerations
Other
Industries
- Natural Gas Processing
- Pharmaceuticals
- Pulp & Paper Processing
- Cosmetics & Detergents
- Potable Water Treatment
- Power Plants
- Energy
- Catalyst Manufacture and Catalytic Reactors
- Pollution Control
- Minerals & Ore Processing
- Vegetable Oil Processing
- Reverse Osmosis Feed Pretreatment
- Scrub Noxious Gases with caustic