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Flooding is a condition in which there is too much gas flowing into an impeller for it to effectively disperse it. If the main purpose of the agitator is to disperse the gas, this is obviously not a desirable condition. But how do we define it quantitatively and how do we measure it? There are actually several ways. We will describe three of them here.