Ozone Contactor Hydrodynamics

Tracer tests were conducted at the 6,000 pounds of ozone per day Tucson, CAP Water Treatment Plant in Tucson, Arizona. The tests were designed to determine T₁₀ values through the contactors at various operating conditions. The tests were modeled using three techniques. Peclet Number was calculated for each of the runs, which would indicate the hydrodynamic conditions inside the ozone contactor. The results indicated that the increase in water flow rate and the number of cells with gas flow increased Peclet Number. The flow rate of liquid seemed to impact the Peclet Number more than gas flow. The headloss in each cell appeared to be important in controlling the distribution of liquid and gas through the cell. A correlation was developed between the product of gas and liquid phase Reynolds Number and Peclet Number.     

Gas and particle flow patterns in cyclones at room and elevated temperatures

Experimental results are presented for a study of gas and particle flows in a 102 mm diameter conventional cyclone operated at temperatures between 300 and 2000 K. Inlet gas velocities ranged from 3 to 42 m/s. Particle deposition patterns and the measurements of local pressures were used to determine the flow patterns and velocity profiles within the cyclone. A “Reynolds Number” has been defined based on the mean inlet velocity and the hydraulic diameter of the annulus between the cyclone wall and the gas outlet duct. An empirical equation was derived to correlate the ratio of the wall tangential velocity to the mean inlet velocity with this Reynolds Number.     

The influence of the riser exit on the particle residence time distribution in a circulating fluidised bed riser

This paper reports measurements of the influence of riser exit geometry upon the particle residence time distribution in the riser of a square cross section, cold model, circulating fluidised bed. The bed is operated within the fast fluidisation regime. The fast response particle RTD technique developed by Harris et al. (Chem. Eng. J. 89 (2002) 127-142) was used to measure the residence time distribution.The geometry of the riser exit is shown to have a modest but consistent influence upon the particle RTD; the influence of operating conditions, i.e. superficial gas velocity and solids flux is more significant.Increasing the refluxing effect of the riser exit increases the mean, variance and breakthrough time and decreases the coefficient of variation of the residence time distribution. Changes in reflux do not have a systematic effect upon the skewness of the RTD.     

A semianalytical model for simulating real gas transport in nanopores and complex fractures of shale gas reservoirs

An efficient gridless semianalytical model was developed to simulate real gas transport in shale formation with nanopores and complex fracture geometry. This model incorporates multiple physics such as gas desorption, adsorbed gas porosity, gas slippage and diffusion, residual water saturation, non‐Darcy flow, choke skin, and pressure‐dependent matrix permeability, and fracture conductivity. Additionally, this model is easy to handle complex fracture geometry through dividing fractures into a number of segments and nodes. We verified the model against a numerical model and an analytical model for bi‐wing hydraulic fractures. After validation, the impacts of all these physics on well performance were evaluated in detail through a series of case studies. The simulation results confirm that modeling of gas production from complex fracture geometry as well as modeling important physics in shale gas reservoirs is significant. This study improves our understanding of critical physics affecting gas recovery in shale gas reservoirs. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 63: 326–337, 2018     

Dispersion in isothermal flow of an ideal gas through porous masses of solid particles

When a non-reactive compressible gas experiences a considerable pressure drop during flow, such as in gas production from petroleum reservoirs, compressibility effects have to be added to the treatment of material dispersion of incompressible systems. In this paper, the dispersion resulting from such effects is calculated and expressed in terms of a Transfer Function with the Dispersion Number as parameter. It is shown that the effect of compressibility is considerable, particularly for large pressure gradients. The analysis is limited to an ideal gas in isothermal flow with a continuous velocity distribution (i.e. no sonic velocity) and flow through a porous mass or fixed bed which can be represented by the axially dispersed flow model.     

Effects of syngas composition on combustion induced vortex breakdown (CIVB) flashback in a swirl stabilized combustor

Flame flashback attributed to combustion induced vortex breakdown (CIVB) is a major design challenge for swirl stabilized burner combustors. This paper presents an experimental investigation of combustion induced vortex breakdown (CIVB) flashback propensity for flames yielded from Hydrogen (H₂)–Carbon Monoxide (CO) fuel blends and actual synthesized gas (syngas) mixtures. A two-fold experimental approach, consisting of a high definition digital imaging system and a high speed PIV system, was employed. The main emphasis was on the effect of concentration of different constituents in fuel mixtures on flashback limit. In addition, the effect of Swirl Number on flashback propensity was discussed. The percentage of H₂ in fuel mixtures played the dominant role when CIVB flashback occurred. For a given air mass flow rate, the mixture containing a higher percentage of H₂ underwent flashback at much leaner conditions. Flashback maps for actual syngas fuel compositions showed a distinct behavior when various concentrations of diluents were introduced in the mixture. For the two major diluents tested, carbon dioxide (CO₂) and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), CO₂ was more dominant. The effect of Swirl Number on the flashback propensity was also tested and showed a decrease with an increase in Swirl Number. The final portion of this paper also provides an analysis of flow field of reacting flames which revealed complex vortex–chemistry interactions leading to vortex breakdown and flashback. Based on the experimental results a parametric model similar to Peclet Number approach was developed employing a flame quenching concept. A value of the quench parameter, C_quench was obtained from the correlation of flow Peclet Number and flame Peclet Number, which was observed to be dominated by the fuel composition rather than Swirl Number.     

Mass transfer performance of structured packings in a CO2 absorption tower

This paper studies the mass transfer performance of structured packings in the absorption of CO2 from air with aqueous NaOH solution. The Eight structured packings tested are sheet metal ones with corrugations of different geometry parameters. Effective mass transfer area and overall gas phase mass transfer coefficient have been measured in an absorption column of 200 mm diameter under the conditions of gas F-factor in 0.38–1.52 Pa0.5 and aqueous NaOH solution concentration of 0.10–0.15 kmol·m?3. The effects of gas/liquid phase flow rates and packing geometry parameters are also investigated. The results show that the effective mass transfer area changes not only with packing geometry parameters and liquid load, but also with gas F-factor. A new effective mass transfer area correlation on the gas F-factor and the liquid load was proposed, which is found to fit experiment data very well.     

Measurement and CFD simulation of single-phase flow in solvent extraction pulsed column

A CFD (computational fluid dynamics) model of a solvent extraction pulsed column has been developed and run with a single water phase. The results are compared with experimental measurements taken on a pilot scale column using PIV (particle image velocimetry).The pulsed column investigated had disk-doughnut internals and was operated under pulsing intensities ranging from 10 to 32.5 mm/s. PIV measurements of velocity were used to validate the CFD model and to characterise the pulsing flow of a single phase through the column. The CFD modelling was performed for the same geometry and operating conditions using a 2D computational grid and a low Reynolds Number k-ε turbulence model. An improved velocity prediction was achieved by adding a gap between the doughnut internal and the pulsed column wall. The combined measurements and predictions give insight into the effect of the geometry internals on the flow hydrodynamics in the pulsed column.     

Residence Time Distribution of Solids in a Fluidized Bed

Experimental investigation on RTD of solids is carried out in a single‐stage fluidized bed provided with an internal, using uniformly sized particles and a binary solid mixture, varying gas flow rate, solids rate, bed height, dilution and the bed geometry. The effect of these variables on first and second moments as well as on F‐curves has been determined. Using a binary solid mixture or an internal inside the bed is found to reduce backmixing of solids. The data is fitted to FTEM and the values of N obtained were compared for different variables.     

环流反应器中肌苷发酵液的氧传递研究

根据肌苷发酵过程主要是溶氧传质控制的结论,本文研究了操作变量和装置结构变量对环流发酵反应器中氧传递的影响,定量地得到气含率,液体循环速度和结构因素对氧传递的关系。对发酵反应器中溶氧浓度分布进行了摸拟计算,依据计算的结果提出了较佳的 D_E/D 和 L_E/D 的结构。     

Motion of solids in spouted beds

Solids movement in a spouted bed has been investigated by means of a radioactively marked particle technique, using a scintillation counter as a detector. The average particle velocity in the spout was found to depend on gas flow rate, gas inlet geometry, axial elevation, bed height, and column diameter. The solids circulation rate is shown to be proportional to the gas flow rate and, further, a function of column and gas inlet geometry, density of fluidising gas and particle diameter. Empirical correlations for both the particle velocity in the spout and the solids circulation rate as a function of axial elevation, are presented.     

Numerical investigation of gas-solid heat transfer in rotating fluidized beds in a static geometry

Gas-solid heat transfer in rotating fluidized beds in a static geometry is theoretically and numerically investigated. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of the particle bed temperature response to a step change in the fluidization gas temperature are presented to illustrate the gas-solid heat transfer characteristics. A comparison with conventional fluidized beds is made. Rotating fluidized beds in a static geometry can operate at centrifugal forces multiple times gravity, allowing increased gas-solid slip velocities and resulting gas-solid heat transfer coefficients. The high ratio of the cylindrically shaped particle bed “width” to “height” allows a further increase of the specific fluidization gas flow rates. The higher specific fluidization gas flow rates and increased gas-solid slip velocities drastically increase the rate of gas-solid heat transfer in rotating fluidized beds in a static geometry. Furthermore, both the centrifugal force and the counteracting radial gas-solid drag force being influenced by the fluidization gas flow rate in a similar way, rotating fluidized beds in a static geometry offer extreme flexibility with respect to the fluidization gas flow rate and the related cooling or heating. Finally, the uniformity of the particle bed temperature is improved by the tangential fluidization and resulting rotational motion of the particle bed.     

Study air–water system in horizontal loop geometry

To enhance the understanding of hydrodynamic of air–water multi-phase flow inside a toroidal geometry, experiments were carried out in horizontal torus reactor. Compared with vertical flow, the flow in horizontal milli torus reactor was characterized by one additional flow pattern. In vertical position two flow regimes are considered: not-dispersed and dispersed flow while in horizontal position three flow regimes have been distinguished: stratified flow, dispersed flow and mixed flow regimes. The mixing time is measured by a conductimetric method as described by (Benkhelifa et al., 2000). The effect of both superficial gas velocities and impeller rotation speeds has been studied. The mixing time has been decreased by increasing both the superficial gas velocity and the impeller rotation speed and has been shorter than the one given for the horizontal configuration. The axial dispersion inside the reactor was modelled by the Zhang's model. The obtained results are in a good agreement with Zhang's model.     

Geometry of crack network and its impact on transport properties of concrete

This paper investigates the crack network geometry in concretes subjected to cyclic axial loading. A total of 24 cylinder specimens of two concretes (OPC and HVFC) were cast and eight levels of cracking extents were created for each concrete. Disks were extracted from the cylinders and the crack geometry was evaluated for sections both perpendicular and parallel to loading. The crack geometry is quantified by crack density, length, orientation and connectivity. The crack length is found to obey log-normal distribution, and the crack orientation and connectivity are correlated strongly with crack density. The volumetric density is identified as a consistent parameter to describe the impact of crack network on altered transport properties. The effective porosity, capillary sorptivity, gas permeability and electrical conductivity all have strong dependence on crack density. In particular, the gas permeability is proved to be sensitive to both small range and large range of crack density.     

气体辅助注射成型模拟中的CAD／CAE模型转换方法

给出了实现气体辅助注射成型ＣＡＥ技术的理论方法和重要算法过程,研究了气辅助注射成型过程中由气辅注塑件ＣＡＤ模型向其ＣＡＥ模型转换、保证几何模型的无缝传递和数据完备性的过程和方法。结果表明,这一技术可以为气体辅助注射成型模拟构造复杂的几何分析模型,得到高质量的单元网格和求解精度。     

基于流体诱发振动的非接触式湿气流流型识别(英文)

A novel noninvasive approach, based on flow-induced vibration, to the online flow regime identification for wet gas flow in a horizontal pipeline is proposed. Research into the flow-induced vibration response for the wet gas flow was conducted under the conditions of pipe diameter 50 mm, pressure from 0.25 MPa to 0.35 MPa, Lockhart-Martinelli parameter from 0.02 to 0.6, and gas Froude Number from 0.5 to 2.7. The flow-induced vibration signals were measured by a transducer installed on outside wall of pipe, and then the normalized energy features from different frequency bands in the vibration signals were extracted through 4-scale wavelet package transform. A “binary tree” multi-class support vector machine(MCSVM) classifier, with the normalized feature vector as inputs, and Gaussian radial basis function as kernel function, was developed to identify the three typical flow regimes in-cluding stratified wavy flow, annular mist flow, and slug flow for wet gas flow. The results show that the method can identify effec-tively flow regimes and its identification accuracy is about 93.3%. Comparing with the other classifiers, the MCSVM classifier has higher accuracy, especially under the case of small samples. The noninvasive measurement approach has great application prospect in online flow regime identification.     

Pressure gradients,voidage and gas flow in the annulus of spouted beds

Parallel measurements of pressure gradients with a differential pressure probe and voidage profiles with a fibre optic system have been carried out to study gas flow distributions in the annulus of spouted beds. The observation of Grbavcic et al. (1976) that for a given fluid‐solid combination and column geometry the annulus pressure gradient at any bed level is independent of bed depth was corroborated again. Calibration curves of pressure drops versus superficial gas velocities for beds of voidage higher than the loose‐packed voidage were obtained by applying the Ergun (1952) equation, making it possible to estimate superficial gas velocities in the annulus using the static pressure gradient method. The local superficial gas velocity in the annulus was found to be higher in a deep bed than in a shallow bed of the same material, contrary to the conclusion (Grbavcic et al., 1976) that, for a given fluid‐solid combination and column geometry, the annulus fluid velocity at any level is independent of bed depth. Theoretical models and equations which do not account for the conical geometry near the bottom were found to underpredict superficial gas velocities in the annulus. Increasing the spouting gas flow was found to increase the net gas flow through the annulus.     

Particle—gas dispersion effects in a round jet

The fully developed region for a two-phase jet exhibits similarity for velocity and concentration. A power law expression approximates the velocity distribution and the square root of this profile coincides with the concentration distribution. Measurements show that particle dispersion decreases with increase in particle concentration and the gas mixing rate is lower than the particle mixing rate. The turbulent Schmidt Number remains constant at a value equal to 0.47.     

Temperature-dependent physical properties in physical gas absorption

A solution for interface temperature rise in physical gas absorption due to heat of solution was obtained by Danckwerts [1,2] with the limitation that the pertinent physical properties—diffusion coefficient, solubility of the gas and thermal conductivity of the liquid remained constant. This paper complements Danckwerts' contribution by considering the pertinent physical properties as temperature-dependent, the dependence being of the form:$\text{Q}\text{Qi}$ = exp [γ_Q(T ? T_i)]. Wagner [3] has obtained solutions for unsteady-state diffusion when the diffusion coefficient is similarly dependent on concentration. Wagner's solutions are adapted to provide a solution for the present problem. Two approximate solutions, one valid at high Lewis Number and the other when Lewis Number approaches unity are also presented. For the normal values of activation energies, Danckwerts' model is shown to be accurate when interfacial temperature rise is less than one percent of the absolute temperature of bulk liquid. The extent of departure from the Danckwerts' model is shown to depend on combinations of activation energies of the pertinent physical properties.     

Hydrodynamics of reactive distillation tray column with catalyst containing envelopes: experiments vs. CFD simulations

We have studied the hydrodynamics of a reactive distillation sieve tray column in which catalyst containing wire-gauze envelopes are disposed along the liquid flow direction. The gas and liquid phases are in cross-current contact on the tray. Experiments were carried out to determine the clear liquid height on the tray as a function of tray geometry and operating conditions. The transient gas–liquid hydrodynamics on the tray was simulated using CFD techniques. The agreement between the experiments and CFD simulations was found to be very good, suggesting that CFD simulations can be used for design and scale-up purposes.