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Fluid Mixing Processes Research Consortium
 

FMP meets mixing needs
FMP is a BHRSolutions-led collaborative research programme which specialises in mixing. It provides members with independently validated tools for evaluating mixing processes and for achieving improvements in productivity. FMP also provides expert consultancy to assist with implementation of design and operational guidelines.

Established in 1983, FMP is the world-recognised authority on fluid mixing processes, providing industry with research results and guidelines for design, operation and scale-up of batch reaction vessels.

The prime objective of FMP is to improve the profitability, effectiveness and safety of stirred or jet-mixed batch reactors. Mixing is a major activity for all process industries. Over 50% of chemicals, food and pharmaceuticals production is carried out in batch stirred reactors.

Optimisation of processes is ensured through multi-disciplinary implementation procedures which match mixing and fluid dynamics to the process chemistry and mass transfer requirements.

The FMP programme is organised and managed by BHRSolutions, and wholly funded by industry. FMP is an innovative approach to shared cost research which enables participants not only to join the programme when it is relevant to their needs, but also to gain access to the results of all previous work.

Because scale-up is critical to the successful application of mixing technology in industrial processes, FMP uses a range of geometrically similar reactors 0.2m to 2.7m diameter to establish correct scaling procedures.

Experimental techniques are upgraded continually. Novel sensors have been developed in collaboration with university and industrial research workers. Computational modelling techniques are employed to rationalise experimental programmes, describe the fluid dynamics of reactors and extend the FMP results to a range of industrially relevant applications.

FMP has generated a unique databank of mixing experience and knowhow, which is distilled in a series of Design Guides written by engineers for use by engineers, in software and hard copy versions.

Training courses and dissemination of information are vital aspects of the service provided to member companies. FMP also acts as a forum for bringing together industrial engineers, researchers and academics.

As a centre of expertise, FMP attracts a range of industrial mixing enquiries from around the world, from members and non-members. Specific problems are investigated under separate commercial contracts by BHRSolutions' engineers.

FMP Provides

  • Standardised test procedures and test results
  • Advice on scale-up from the laboratory to the factory
  • Advice on the operation of batch mixing vessels
  • A unique range of scales of test vessels and impeller designs
  • Specialist analytical facilities such as video droplet capture techniques, chemical reaction probes and laser doppler anemometry

Benefits of FMP Membership

  • Immediate access to the confidential results of FMP's research from 1983 to the present, representing over £8M of investment, and over 190 staff-years of mixing research
  • Use our training courses to get the best from FMP information: a free two-day course on-site for new members, and members rejoining for a three year period.
  • Apply FMP's Design Guides (in software or on paper) for technical and investment decisions on new and retrofit requirements: free copies of all design guides and final reports for all members
  • Utilise our consultancy and problem-solving services including up to five days free consultancy each year
  • Access to the FMP facilities for confidential contract research work with no rental charge, and advice from our test engineers on test methods.
  • The opportunity to steer the FMP research programme at twice yearly Steering Committee meetings in the UK and annual presentations in the USA
  • Meet international process industry professionals in fluid mixing and reactor design

New: low-cost Starter package entry for new members joining FMP. Download the details here.

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