Experts

Mixing and Separation

Contact Center Expert: Tom Post, Ph.D., President, Post Mixing, Inc., www.postmixing.com

Dr. Tom Post has worked as an independent consultant in fluid mixing for the past five years. Before establishing his own business, he was V.P. of mixing technology and R&D at Lightnin, and held a number of other key positions at that company; he also worked in the pharmaceutical industry for Smith Kline and French. He has coauthored one book, and is the author of four patents and numerous articles on mixing. He is also knowledgeable about separations technologies, including chromatography. Dr. Post, who is fluent in both English and Germany, has a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Iinstitute of Technology in Zurich.

Mixing tank concerns in a scale-down
Our company is trying to optimize many of our processes. When I went to the pilot plant, I noticed that most of the mixing tanks were glass-lined, unlike many of our full-scale vessels. They also have impellers that look much different. What do I need to be concerned about when using these tanks to scale-down our current processes, and then how do we scale-up any process improvements we discover along the way?
Category: Mixing and Separation