Detection of Failure mode of Pressure Vessel Agitator due to variable load

  Shivam M Shukla,  Prashant S Bajaj

In this era, mixing is one of the most fundamental operations in industries like paper, food, cosmetic, chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical applications. Pressure vessel agitator is one of the important parts in the mixing process. Proper and uniform mixing gives improved quality of the product. In this paper, we have mainly focused on detection of failure mode of Pressure Vessel agitator for variable load. Reactor Pressure for variable viscosity loads. The design of agitator affects on the mixing process as proper design can increase the mixing and uniform distributions of all additives, chemicals, raw materials present in the fluid. The review helps us to design an error prone model for agitator blade which will increase the mixing percentage avoiding the deflection of the blades. The dimensions calculated by the theoretical formulas may lead to high dimensions along with more thickness of the Blades being sized. In order to avoid these troubles the approach of Design by analysis or FEA must be adopted, where stimulation of the Agitator model being developed & being analyzed using the various loads being applied for different speeds of rotation. The result of the analysis will help to figure out optimum size of the Blades along with the trouble of bending of the blades can be avoided.

Keywords- Agitator,deflection

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1801055
Page Number(s) - 329-334
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 1 | January 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Shivam M Shukla,  Prashant S Bajaj,   "Detection of Failure mode of Pressure Vessel Agitator due to variable load", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 1, pp.329-334, January 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1801055.pdf