Statistical Image Analysis on Liquid-Liquid Mixing Uniformity of Micro-Scale Pipeline with Chaotic Structure

Haotian Wang, Kai Yang, Hua Wang, Jingyuan Wu () and Qingtai Xiao ()
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Haotian Wang: State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Kai Yang: State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Hua Wang: State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Jingyuan Wu: State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Qingtai Xiao: Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: The aim of this work is to introduce a novel statistical technique for quantifying the concentration field uniformity of the liquid-liquid mixing process within a micro-scale chaotic pipeline. For illustration, the microscale liquid-liquid mixer in which the inlet direction is parallel to the mixing unit is designed by using the chaotic pipeline with Baker map. Meanwhile, the non-uniformity coefficient method is adopted quantificationally instead of qualitatively estimating the concentration field uniformity of the chaotic micromixer based on uniform design theory and image analysis. Results show that the concentration distribution of the chaotic mixing process of liquid-liquid under various working conditions is obtained by solving the steady-state Navier–Stokes and diffusion convection equations. The average contribution ratio of the three basic mixing units of the chaotic Baker pipeline to the concentration field uniformity is approximately 6:3:1, which is calculated aligned with the fluid flow direction successively. The optimal mixing uniformity can be obtained as the initial velocity is 0.05 m/s and the diffusion coefficient is 5 × 10 −9 m 2 /s, respectively. The reliability of the new method for estimating the concentration field uniformity parameters is explained from three dimensions. The statistical image analysis technique is illustrated to be reliable and effective in yielding accurate concentration field information of the simulated chaotic mixer. Furthermore, it can be adapted to examine a variety of concentration distribution issues in which concentrations are evaluated under distinct scales.

Keywords: chaotic pipeline; micro-scale structure; mixing uniformity; image analysis; statistical measure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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