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Plug Flow
Static mixers, also called motionless mixers, or inliners, have the effect of reducing the velocity difference across a
pipe, hence plug flow type.
This type of flow regime can be extremely
advantageous when dealing with certain types of reactions, dosing-sampling
systems etc.
An ideal plug flow reactor assumes ideal mixing (red line), where no back
mixing occurs. Backmixing is more common in a stirred tank reactor utilizing a dynamic
mixer.
Diagram of flow in an empty pipe verses a plug flow created by a static mixer(inliner).
Pictorial of the effect of successive elements splitting and blending the flow
until a homogeneous mixture is achieved.
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