THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION
OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A ROTARY-PULSATORY
APPARATUS

V. M. Fomin,a} A. V. Fedorov,a}
T. A. Khmel',a} M. S. Vasilishin,b}
A. G. Karpov,b} and A. A. Kukhlenkob}

UDC 532.695

Experimental-theoretical investigation of the characteristics 
of a rotary-pulsatory apparatus with an impeller and controlled flow 
rate, which is intended to intensify the processes of extraction of 
substances from a vegetable raw material in the pharmaceutical industry, 
has been carried out. A semiempirical physicomathematical hydrodynamic 
model has been proposed; expressions for the characteristics of the 
averaged flow have been determined. Agreement between the calculated 
and experimental data on the head and the power consumption as functions 
of the flow-rate of the medium and the rotational velocity of the 
motor has been obtained.

a}S. A. Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4/1 Institutskaya Str., 
Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; email: fedorov@itam.nsc.ru 
and khmel@itam.nsc.ru; b}Institute of Problems 
of Chemical-Power Technologies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 
Biisk, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 5, 
pp. 817-825, September-October, 2008. Original article submitted October 17, 2007.