To the question of cleaning wax raw materials from pollution: modeling the process of beebread dissolution in water under intensive mechanical mixing

The purpose of the study was theoretical sub- stantiation of the parameters of wet cleaning of waxy materials from beebread by dissolving them by intensive mechanical stirring of crushed bee honeycombs in water. The basis for building the model was made by the main ideas of the latest film-penetration theory, determining the mass trans-fer equations for dissolving solid particles in a liq- uid. The results of numerical simulation showed that the mass transfer coefficient increased mono- tonically with increasing in the intensity of hashing. In accordance with accepted model with given initial parameters, the highest rate of increase in the mass transfer coefficient was observed when mixing inten- sity changed from 0 to 2500 W/m3, then the growth slowed down. At the time of complete dissolution of solid dispersed component (pollen) a significant ef- fect was made by initial particle size distribution. If mixing intensity was 10,000 W/m3 and the mass transfer coefficient was 1...