Stephen Kessler, Chief Technology Officer, IMPACT Technology Development
“At IMPACT we offer fully integrated contract product and process development projects. Our clients cover a broad spectrum of industries including specialty chemicals, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, energy and others. We have been using KaeMix for multiple years now for when we need to design, optimize, or scale-up agitators for fluid mixing systems. We have found KaeMix’s large impeller library to be very useful, because it allows us to cover even very specialized mixing systems used by our customers. In addition to liquid blending applications, KaeMix has also been helpful in analyzing difficult gas-liquid multiphase systems. KaeMix is a very comprehensive mixing software package that has been easy to learn, receives frequent updates, is very well supported, and we have been very satisfied with it.”
Brian Uhlenkamp, VP Engineering/Research & Development, DCI, Inc.
“At DCI, Inc. we have decades of experience in manufacturing processing vessels, agitators, and integrated systems for a variety of applications in the food, dairy, beverage, biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical, and other industries. We build custom engineered equipment, including agitators for the tanks and vessels we offer. We are also very proud of our stand-alone PharMix™ agitators product line. Thanks to its very comprehensive impeller database, KaeMix allows us to expand on our many impeller offerings with confidence. We find the KaeMix software to be a great tool to design and size impeller systems to ensure that our customers’ process requirements are met. KaeMix is quite a powerful software, it was easy to learn, and we have been very pleased with it.”
Dr. Andrei A. Zlota, President and Chief Chemical Engineer, The ZLOTA Co., LLC
“Our company offers Quality by Design (QbD) consulting and training to the pharmaceutical and other process industries. Services include risk analysis, statistical design of experiments (DoE), and chemical process scale-up. We also provide advice on the selection of suitable plant equipment such as reactors and agitators, and recommendations with scale-up strategies for drug substance and drug product process scale-up. KaeMix, in synergy with other scale-up software platforms, especially because of the significant diversity of agitators included in their database, provides valuable process scale-up guidance, in particular when companies expand their pilot plants. New mixers can be designed, and one can analyze and improve already operating equipment. KaeMix helps greatly when multiple mixer designs are compared to find the one that best matches the end-user process. KaeMix is proving to be a very useful software tool for our company, and I expect that some of our clients will eventually purchase their own copies of KaeMix. The software is continually updated, and Dr. Andre Bakker is available to provide meaningful support for those less familiar with such chemical engineering software.”
Richard D. LaRoche PhD, Engineering Strategist, Rwanika-LaRoche LLC
“KaeMix is the most complete and user-friendly mixing software I’ve encountered in over three decades of engineering consulting. It consolidates essential data and correlations from all the major sources in the field — including the Handbook of Industrial Mixing and many other recent high quality publications by well-known authors — and makes that knowledge accessible through an intuitive, high-performance design environment. With its extensive impeller database and strong support for both single and multiphase systems, KaeMix has become my go-to agitator design and scale-up tool. It streamlines workflow, enhances accuracy, and supports better engineering decisions. Highly recommended!“
Dr. Domenico Marchese, Managing Director, OPERA Consulting
“At OPERA Consulting we specialize in the design of food processing factories and related applications. We recently started using KaeMix during a project that involved the design of a facility to produce pectin from citrus peel. We used KaeMix to design the mixers for several of the processing vessels. KaeMix was very convenient to use. It saved us a lot of time on the agitator designs. We’re very pleased with the software as well as the support and recommend it without hesitation.”
John R. Hannon PhD, Chief Operating Officer, Vertimass LLC
“I found KaeMix very easy to learn and use. It calculates all the important process parameters that I use when evaluating mixing equipment. The large variety of impeller types available is particularly helpful. The fact that it gives you answers right away, without having to wait for long simulations to complete, makes KaeMix especially useful when you are under time pressure to complete a design. As a specialist in biofuels and fermentation, I’ve found KaeMix to be a great addition to my software toolbox.”
Gregory T. Benz, Benz Technology International, Inc
“As a consultant in the field of fluid agitation, I need robust software to handle complex mixing calculations in an efficient manner. I have been using KaeMix software for some time now. One example is for aerobic fermenter design. With this software, I can quickly calculate power draw under gassed conditions in the pilot scale and thereby fit a mass transfer correlation to the data, as well as scale-up to an appropriate full-scale design. I have been using it for alternative proteins such as cow-free dairy products and cultured meat. I also use it to predict dead areas in non-Newtonian fluids with a yield stress, as well as more ordinary applications, typically in the food and biofuels area. I have found this software to be a more capable analytical tool than those I have used owned by major fluid agitation equipment manufacturers. I highly recommend it.”
Author of “Agitator Design for Gas-Liquid Fermenters and Bioreactors” and “Agitator Design Technology for Biofuels and Renewable Chemicals”
