FMP - Fluid Mixing Processes Consortium

FMP is an industrially driven mixing research and design project, run continuously since 1983:

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How FMP Works

•  Identify and discuss problems
• Members vote on work programme
• FMP Carry out physical and CFD experiments
• Disseminate as reports and design guides

What FMP Delivers

• Relevant data, correlations and scaling rules
• Critical reviews of public information
• Design Guides and Best Practice Documents, including the Excel Design Guide calculation tool

What FMP Covers

FMP investigates mixing in stirred tank, in-line and jet mixed systems using industrially relevant geometries, scales and rheologies - not always optimal or “standard”, eg:

• Poorly and un-baffled vessels with variable fill levels
• Single and Multiphase Mixing
• Mixing and chemical reaction incl. scale-up of micro and meso mixing limited reactions
• Laminar, transitional and turbulent regimes
• Effects of physical property differences on mixing processes