Recovery of phenol from aqueous solution by supported liquid membrane using vegetable oils as liquid membrane

The transport of phenol through a flat sheet supported liquid membrane (SLM) containing vegetable oil as liquid membrane (LM) has been investigated. The permeation of phenol was investigated by varying the experimental conditions like, selection of LM, support material, feed phase pH, stripping solution concentration, stirring speed and different initial concentration of phenol. It has been found that, each LM investigated in the present study shows the effective removal of phenol using polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane and PP supported membrane as a solid support. Among the various oils tested, palm oil has chosen to be the best LM with permeability of 8.5x10(-6) m/s in acidic feed of pH 2.0 with 0.2 M sodium hydroxide as effective stripping agent. After 6 h all the phenol from the feed side gets transported to strip solution with an initial concentration of 100 mg/L. A concentration factor of five has been achieved in the present investigation easily with 0.2 M sodium hydroxide as stripping reagent. After 10 transport studies with one impregnation of LM, the LM showed no significant loss in the transport rate with average permeability of 7.9x10(-6) m/s with initial concentration 100 mg/L. Further study has also been attempted with cresols to explore the possibility of applying this to industrial wastewater under the optimized conditions for phenol. After 14 h of the transport studies in the phenol-formaldehyde industry wastewater, phenolic concentration in the feed solution was found to be below detectable level (1x10(-2) mg/L). For wood processing industry wastewater the transport takes place at the initial permeability of 7.1x10(-5) m/s. Thus it has been demonstrated the use of renewable, cheap, non toxic, naturally occurring vegetable oils as a novel, green liquid membrane for the recovery of phenol from aqueous solution in SLM, which has never been employed before in liquid membrane techniques.     

Mass transfer of VOCs in laboratory-scale air sparging tank

Volatilization of VOCs was investigated using a 55-gal laboratory-scale model in which air sparging experiments were conducted with a vertical air injection well. In addition, X-ray imaging of an air sparging sand box showed air flows were in the form of air bubbles or channels depending on the size of the porous media. Air-water mass transfer was quantified using the air-water mass transfer coefficient which was determined by fitting the experimental data to a two-zone model. The two-zone model is a one-dimensional lumped model that accounts for the effects of air flow type and diffusion of VOCs in the aqueous phase. The experimental air-water mass transfer coefficients, KGa, obtained from this study ranged from 10(-2) to 10(-3)1/min. From a correlation analysis, the air-water mass transfer coefficient was found to be directly proportional to the air flow rate and the mean particle size of soil but inversely proportional to Henry's constant. The correlation results implied that the air-water mass transfer coefficient was strongly affected by the size of porous media and the air flow rates.     

Combined effects of external mass transfer and biodegradation rates on removal of phenol by immobilized Ralstonia eutropha in a packed bed reactor

Biodegradation of phenol by calcium-alginate immobilized Ralstonia eutropha was carried out in a batch stirred and a packed bed reactor. In the batch system studies, the effect of initial phenol concentration on biodegradation was investigated at 30 degrees C and pH 7 while in the continuous system studies, the effects of flow rate and inlet phenol concentration on biodegradation were tested at the same temperature and pH. The observed biodegradation rate constant was calculated at different flow rates with the assumption of first-order biodegradation kinetics. Various external mass transfer correlations were evaluated and a new correlation of the type JD=K(NRe)(-(n-1)) was developed with the values of K=1.34 and n=0.65. The intrinsic first-order biodegradation rate constants and the external mass transfer coefficients were calculated then the combined effects of these rates on the observed first-order biodegradation rate constants were also investigated.     

气态膜过程中的热效应

实验表明提高温度（Ｔ）能大幅度增加挥发性物质在气态膜过程中的传质系数（Ｋ），Ｋ和Ｔ间的关系符合Ａｒｒｈｅｎｉｕｓ方程Ｋ＝Ｋｏｅｘｐ（－Ｅ／ＲＴ）。用Ｓｔｏｋｅｓ－Ｅｉｎｔｅｉｎｓ和Ｌｅｖｅｑｅ方程，从理论上证实：（１）对于易挥发性物质（如ＨＣＮ），温度主要是通过降低进水边界层中水溶液的粘度或提高扩散系数，而使传质系数大幅度升高；（２）对于挥发性较小的物质（如苯酚），温度主要是通过提高其蒸汽压或进水     

Kinetic study of ozonation of molasses fermentation wastewater

A kinetic study of molasses wastewater ozonation was carried out in a stirred tank reactor to obtain the rate constants for the decolorization reaction and the regime through which ozone is absorbed. First, fundamental mass transfer parameters such as ozone solubility, volumetric mass transfer coefficients and ozone decomposition kinetics were determined from semi-batch experiments in organic-free solutions with an ionic composition similar that of industrial wastewater. The influence of operating variables such as the stirring rate and gas flow rate on the kinetic and mass transfer parameters was also studied. The application of film theory allows to establish that the reactions between ozone and colored compounds in wastewater take place in the fast and pseudo-first-order regime, within the liquid film. The decolorization rate constants were evaluated at pH 8.7 and 25 degrees C, varying from 0.6 x 10(7) to 3.8 x 10(7)L mol(-1)s(-1), depending on the stirring rate and the inlet gas flow.     

Electrochemical oxidation of phenol in a parallel plate reactor using ruthenium mixed metal oxide electrode

In this study, electrochemical oxidation of phenol was carried out in a parallel plate reactor using ruthenium mixed metal oxide electrode. The effects of initial pH, temperature, supporting electrolyte concentration, current density, flow rate and initial phenol concentration on the removal efficiency were investigated. Model wastewater prepared with distilled water and phenol, was recirculated to the electrochemical reactor by a peristaltic pump. Sodium sulfate was used as supporting electrolyte. The Microtox bioassay was also used to measure the toxicity of the model wastewater during the study. As a result of the study, removal efficiency of 99.7% and 88.9% were achieved for the initial phenol concentration of 200 mg/L and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 480 mg/L, respectively. In the same study, specific energy consumption of 1.88 k Wh/g phenol removed and, mass transfer coefficient of 8.62 x 10(-6)m/s were reached at the current density of 15 mA/cm(2). Electrochemical oxygen demand (EOD), which can be defined as the amount of electrochemically formed oxygen used for the oxidation of organic pollutants, was 2.13 g O(2)/g phenol. Electrochemical oxidation of petroleum refinery wastewater was also studied at the optimum experimental conditions obtained. Phenol removal of 94.5% and COD removal of 70.1% were reached at the current density of 20 mA/cm(2) for the petroleum refinery wastewater.     

CFD modelling and simulation of an industrial scale continuous fluidized bed roaster

In the present work, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based modelling of an industrial scale continuous fluidised bed roaster (FBR) has been carried out to study its performance at different operating conditions, so that the sulphide-sulphur content in the product is within 0.4% at the designed feed rate of 39.75 DMT/h. Eulerian-Eulerian multiphase model, considering four granular phases and one gas phase has been implemented to investigate the velocity and mass fraction profile of the particles in the FBR. The heat and species mass balance calculations have been performed external to CFD, by dividing the roaster into several sections. The conversion of ZnS to ZnO at various sections of the roaster has been estimated using reaction kinetics under isothermal condition (1203 K). The heat liberated and possible temperature rise at each section was predicted based on the heat of reaction and sensible heat of the solid and gaseous products. The CFD model was validated with the plant data for a feed rate of 36.5 DMT/h, air flow rate of 65,000 Nm³/h and O₂ content of 21%. The proposed model predicted the sulphide-sulphur content in the product to be 0.4% for the designed feed rate of 39.75 DMT/h, when the O₂ content in the inlet air was increased to 25%.     

Experimental investigation of heat transfer enhancement in helical coil heat exchangers using water based CuO nanofluid

The present work deals with the study of heat transfer enhancement using water based CuO nanofluids in the helical coil heat exchanger. Nanofluids were prepared using two-step method by using wet chemical method. Nanofluids with various volume percentage between 0 and 0.5 of CuO nanoparticles and their flow rate between 30 and 80 LPH (Reynolds number ranging from 812 to 1895, Laminar flow regime) were considered in the present study. The setup consists of a test section (helical coil), cooler, reservoir, pump, flow meter, thermocouples and flow controlling system. The temperature measurements were carried out with the help of thermocouples. The investigation was carried out to study the effect of particle loading and flow rate on heat transfer coefficient and Nusselt number. It has been found that the increase in the loading of CuO nanoparticles in base fluid shows a significant enhancement in the heat transfer coefficient of nanofluid. In the present study, at 0.1 vol% concentration of CuO nanoparticles in nanofluid, enhancement in heat transfer coefficient was 37.3% as compared to base fluid while at 0.5 vol%, it is as high as 77.7%. Also with the increase in the flow rate of the CuO nanofluid, significant increase in heat transfer coefficient was observed.     

Photocatalytic oxidation of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol in water using a cocurrent downflow contactor reactor (CDCR)

The heterogeneous photocatalytic oxidation of aqueous solutions of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) as a model pollutant in industrial wastewater has been carried out in a pilot scale cocurrent downflow contactor reactor (CDCR). The reactions were carried out in the presence of Ultra-Violet radiation, O(2) and TiO(2) photocatalyst (VP Aeroperl P25/20). The TiO(2) was characterized by Dynamic Vapour Sorption (DVS) technique giving specific surface area and surface energy of 46.06 m(2)g(-1) and 80.12 mJ m(-2), respectively. The CDC reactor was fitted with an internally and vertically mounted 1.0 kW or 2.0 kW UV lamp. The reactions were carried out at 50 degrees C and 1 bar, with the reactor being operated in closed loop recycle mode and suspended photocatalyst being re-circulated. The CDC reactor, a device of very high mass transfer efficiency giving unusually large gas hold-up of approximately 50%, was operated with oxygen mass transfer and dissolution in the zone above the UV lamp (high mass transfer zone) and along and around the UV lamp housing (reaction zone). Under optimized reaction conditions, 100% conversion of 2,4,6-TCP was achieved in 180 min using 15 dm(3) solutions with initial concentration of 120 mg dm(-3). A combination of TiO(2) photocatalyst, UV irradiation and oxidant was observed to give the most rapid photodegradation and photomineralization of the 2,4,6-TCP in comparison with irradiation only. Using the 1 kW or 2 kW UV lamps, conversion of 100 mg dm(-3) of 2,4,6-TCP after 30 min was 62.51% and 90.71%, respectively, with initial reaction rates of 1.33 x 10(-5) and 4.22 x 10(-5) mol min(-1), respectively, and rate constants 0.0046 and 0.29 min(-1), respectively.     

溴水的膜吸收性能研究

研究了溴水的膜吸收分离性能,并采用回归正交试验设计方法优化溴水膜吸收工艺条件.以NaOH溶液作为吸收剂,采用PVDF中空纤维膜,研究了吸收时间、溴水温度、吸收液浓度及其流速等操作条件对溴水膜吸收性能的影响.结果表明:溴的吸收率随吸收时间的增加而增大,溴水膜吸收过程进料温度与传质系数之间符合阿伦尼斯关系.吸收液侧NaOH的浓度从0.003 mol/L增加至0.01 mol/L时,传质系数从4.75×10-4 cm/s增至6.02×10-4cm/s,对应的膜通量从2.4×10-3 kg/(m2·h)增至3×10-3 kg/(m2·h).吸收液的流体动力学条件对于溴水膜吸收过程通量无显著影响.采用回归正交试验确定的PVDF膜溴水膜吸收分离最佳工艺为:当NaOH吸收溶液浓度为0.01 mol/L,流量为2 L/h时,浓度为220 mg/L的溴水在进料温度为50℃、进料流速为22.24 cm/s的条件下,膜吸收通量达到6.17×10-3kg/(m2·h).     

Flow characteristics and flow rate prediction of pulverized coal through a regulation valve

In this paper, experiments of dense-phase pneumatic conveying of pulverized coal were carried out in an industrial-scale system to study the control characteristics of the regulation valve and to predict the solid mass flow rate. Firstly, effects of valve sweeping gas on conveying stability and solid mass flow rate were investigated and the optimum valve sweeping gas was determined. Second, effects of valve opening on pressure distribution and solid mass flow rate were investigated by conducting experiments at different conveying pressure drops and different valve openings. A good linear relationship between the valve pressure drop ratio and the valve opening was found, and as the valve opening increased from 13 % to 70 % the solid mass flow rate increased gradually. Limit operating conditions of the regulation valve including flow blockage and control failure were consequently determined and analyzed. Finally, a robust model was established to predict the solid mass flow rate by introducing the valve sensitivity coefficient into the traditional pressure drop ratio model. The model can predict the solid mass flow rate well by providing errors mostly within ± 10 %. This study will provide certain reference for solid mass flow rate regulation in the dry coal gasification process.     

Heat transfer characteristics of the ice slurry at melting process in a tube flow

The heat transfer characteristics were experimentally investigated for ice slurry made from 6.5% ethylene glycol–water solution flow in a 13.84 mm internal diameter, 1500 mm long horizontal copper tube. The ice slurry was heated by hot water circulated at the annulus gap of the test section. Experiments of the melting process were conducted with changing the ice slurry mass flux and the ice fraction from 800 to 3500 kg/m² s and 0–25%, respectively. During the experiment, it was found that the measured heat transfer rates increase with the mass flow rate and ice fraction; however, the effect of ice fraction appears not to be significant at high mass flow rate. At the region of low mass flow rates, a sharp increase in the heat transfer coefficient was observed when the ice fraction was more than 10%.     

Efficiency of cooled extended surfaces: Efficacité des surfaces augmentées refroidies

A three-dimensional analysis of the combined heat and mass transfer between a moist air turbulent flow and a cooled solid surface was carried out. A turbulent boundary layer was modelled using the Wilcox k–ω turbulence model. Numerical results for the extended surface efficiency under various psychrometric conditions were obtained by solving simultaneously coupled equations of the fluid and the solid. The results show that variations in moist air parameters have a significant effect on the extended surface efficiency. It is shown that an increase in the inlet air humidity decreases the surface efficiency.     

A research on the dryout characteristics of CO2'S flow boiling heat transfer process in mini-channels

The experimental and theoretical researches have been carried out to get the flow boiling heat transfer characteristics of carbon dioxide (CO₂ or R744) as a refrigerant in horizontal mini-channel. Based on infrared thermal imaging tests and experimental studies on heat transfer coefficients, the heat transfer coefficients and dryout characteristics of CO₂ are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively in following conditions: Heat flux: 2~35 kW m^-2, Mass flux: 50~1350 kg m^-2 s^-1, saturation temperature: −10~15 °C, mini-channel inner diameter: 1 mm and 2 mm. Primary conclusions can be drawn from the results of the experiments: The increase of heat flux enhances the nucleate boiling heat transfer of the refrigerant inside mini-channel, which leads to the remarkable increase of heat transfer coefficient. But it speeds up the process of dryout. It also has a certain influence on vapor qualities of dryout at both the starting and the ending stage. The effect of mass flux on heat transfer enhancement depends on the dominant heat transfer mode in the tube. With the increase of mass flow rate, the vapor quality at the start of dryout has a decreasing trend. But the heat transfer coefficient increases at the end of dryout process or even after dryout process; the heat transfer coefficient does not vary monotonically with the saturation temperature: when the saturation temperature is high and even close to CO₂'s critical temperature, the heat transfer coefficient increases with the increase of saturation temperature; when the saturation temperature is low, the heat transfer coefficient increases with the decrease of saturation temperature. Besides, during the heat transfer process, the dryout vapor quality falls monotonically with the increase of saturation temperature. It is reasonable to conclude that dryout characteristics have significant influence on heat transfer coefficient. Fang correlation that predicts the heat transfer coefficient of CO₂ is in good agreement with the experimental data, which has a mean absolute deviation of 15.7%, and predicts 71.98% of the entire database within ±20% and 86.84% of the entire database within ±30%.     

翅片管式CO2气体冷却器模拟与优化

为了研究CO2在翅片管式气体冷却器内的流动特性,建立了稳态分布参数模型,并进行了实验验证。结果表明:CO2侧换热系数受入口压力和质量流量的影响较大,但入口温度对其影响很小。换热量随着入口压力的变化有一个最大值;且随着流量的增大,最大换热量所对应的入口压力值逐渐增大。压降和换热量均随入口温度的增加而线性增加。适当增加管程数,采用较小管径的气冷器性能更高。     

温度极化对膜蒸馏过程的影响研究

采用直接接触式膜蒸馏，以纯水为料液，考察了材料及结构不同的5种微孔疏水膜的渗透性能．分析结果认为，膜的渗透系数和温度极化系数共同影响着膜通量的大小．实验还考察了料液温度和流率对膜通量及热效率的影响，利用膜及膜两侧边界层内传热传质理论对此进行了分析讨论．因温度极化系数随操作温度变化，可通过控制适宜操作温度获得大膜通量和高热效率．增大料液流率可强化传热，使温度极化减弱，膜通量增加．     

Mass transfer studies on the biodegradation of phenols in up-flow packed bed reactors.

A quantitative analysis of the effect of mass transfer coefficients on the operating parameters namely, flow rate, bed height, particle and column diameter, voidage and initial concentration of phenols, etc. is carried out for the biodegradation of phenols in an up-flow packed bed reactor. A mass transfer correlation of the type, j(D)=K (Re')(n-1) is developed to represent the present experimental data obtained using activated carbon-Pseudomonas pictorum-alginate, celite-P. pictorum-alginate and P. pictorum-alginate beads for the continuous biodegradation of phenol. The overall reaction rate was found to be of the first order with the mass transfer as the rate-limiting step. For mass transfer with biochemical reaction, a correlation of experiment with theory is made. A realistic estimate of the effects of external mass transfer coefficients is also made in this present work.     

Drying of Rubber Wood Sawdust Using Tray Dryer

The present study attempts to understand drying characteristics of rubber wood sawdust in a tray dryer as it is the simplest and oldest of the dryers known commercially. An increase in temperature, flow rate of the heating medium, and initial moisture content was found to increase the drying rate. However, an increase in the particle diameter and bed height was found to reduce the drying rate. The increase in drying rate with temperature and moisture content was attributed to increase in the diffusion coefficient, while the increase due to the flow rate is attributed to reduction in the external mass transfer resistance during early stages of drying while the drying rate was high. An increase in bed height as well as particle size increases the diffusion path length for moisture, which contributes to the reduction in drying rate. The experimental data were modeled using Fick's diffusion equation, and the effective diffusivity coefficient was evaluated by minimizing the error between the experimental data and the prediction using the model equation. The effective diffusion coefficient was found to increase with increase in temperature, initial moisture content, and the flow rate of the heating medium, while it was found to decrease with increase in particle size. The diffusion coefficient was not found to vary with the bed height/solid loading. The effective diffusion coefficient was found to vary within 9.1 × 10^-9to 22 × 10^-9 m²/min. The standard deviation of error between the experimental data and prediction using the model, using the estimated effective diffusivity coefficient, was found to be less than 0.07 for the entire set of data, indicating the appropriateness of the model in predicting drying kinetics.     

板式蒸发冷却空冷器的阻力和传热特性实验研究

通过改变风量、水量和增湿供水量,对板式蒸发空冷器阻力及传热特性进行实验研究,得到干工况下空气侧和热水侧的阻力及对流换热系数关联式.实验结果表明,增湿工况下,空气侧阻力几乎不受影响,换热系数随增湿供水量增加而增大,约为干工况时的6倍.     

Cool-down studies on vacuum insulated cryogenic transfer lines

Analytical and experimental studies on the cool-down of vacuum insulated cryogenic transfer lines have been carried out. An expression for estimating the cool-down history is derived taking into account the gas conduction effects. Experiments were carried out for LN₂ flow in glass lines. The cool-down time decreases with increasing vacuum up to 10^?2 torr. Beyond this there is no significant change in cool-down time. The outer jacket size has no appreciable influence on the cool-down process. Higher mass flow rates result in faster cooling of the pipe line. The experimental and theoretical cool-down curves agree well, particularly at higher jacket vacuums and at higher mass flow rates.