PERMiT

The Experimental Division at Tridiagonal caters to the pilot and field scale testing needs of the Oil & Gas and the Chemical Process Industry segments.
Covering over 250,000 square feet, we operate one of the world’s largest multiphase flow laboratory servicing the Oil & Gas industry. However, Chemical Process Industry projects are focused on enabling Process & Product Innovations in Chemical, Consumer Product, Food and Pharma Industry. Experiments focus on foaming and aeration during bottle filling, drying & roasting, batch to continuous transformations, mixing and vortexing in stirred tanks, solids dissolution, coating etc. The key expertise of the team is design, construction and operation of lab and pilot scale plants based on sound multiphase flow and chemical engineering principles.

In Industrial process engineering, mixing is unit operation, which is one of the critical parameters. It involves the manipulation of the heterogeneous system into the homogeneous system. It is performed to allow heat and/or mass transfer to occur between one or more phases. Modern industrial processing almost always involves some form of mixing. With the right equipment, it is possible to mix a solid, liquid or gas into another solid, liquid or gas. Tridiagonal offers mixing testing facilities with below capabilities.

■ Measure fluid velocity using
■ Ultrasonic Velocity Profiler
■ Impeller Characterization Study
■ Measurement of Power Number
■ Measure Vortex shape and depth using high speed imaging
■ Perform mixing test using dye test
■ Characterize gas-liquid system
■ Gas hold-up measurement
■ Gas distribution profiles
■ Characterize solids-liquid system
■ Measure Njs
■ Solids concentration profile

These capabilities will help in getting data like Flow visualization, Non-intrusive and intrusive velocity measurements, Impeller power consumption, Mixing time analysis, Gas hold-up analysis and Gas volume fraction, which ultimately help the user to validate his study, makes the interpretation from available data, predict the batch quality, troubleshoot and scale up the product without much trial-n-error.