An experimental study on floating solids in a liquid bath

This study is concerned with an experimental investigation of the minimum speed and the associated power consumption to achieve the submergence of floating solids in a stirred vessel. The physical modeling was achieved by using water as the liquid medium and pine wood pellets as buoyant particles. Particular attention was given to the effects of pellet size and pellet load on submergence. Power consumption was found to be increased when larger pellets were used. Tests performed to the study the load effect showed an increase in the power consumption when the total load increased. A 20% increase in power consumption was required to submerge larger pellet sizes.