用CFD研究气升式内环流生物反应器下降管中的流体力学性质

在对气升式内环流生物反应器内部流动分析基础上,全面考虑反应器下降管中气泡的并聚破碎、气液两相间相互作用和滑移等, 建立了能描述反应器下降管中复杂流动的CFD数学模型. 运用CFX-4.4对模型方程进行求解, 通过求解得到了包括气液两相速度场、局部气含率分布等详尽信息,并就液相流动速度与相应条件下的PIV测试结果进行了比较,主体流动速度的偏差在20%以下,且两者总的变化趋势一致.该模型能较好地预测反应器下降管内的复杂流场.     

气体分布器结构对气升式环流反应器内气液两相流动的影响

使用欧拉两流体模型研究气体分布器结构对气升式环流反应器内气液两相流动的影响,预测了环己烷氧化反应器内单环结构、三环结构、五环结构的气体分布器时反应器内液相速度分布、气含率分布、液相循环速度以及液相微观混合特性.模拟结果表明,在等量的进气流量下,气体分布器环数增加,液相速度分布和气含率分布更趋均匀;气体分布器环数增加,液相推动力增加,从而使得液相循环速度增加,液相的宏观混合效果增强;气体分布器环数增加,导流筒内外的平均气含率增加.随机游走模型模拟结果表明,气升式环流反应器与普通鼓泡床反应器对气体分布器结构要求不同.     

Mass Transfer Studies in Stirred AirLift Reactor

In the present work, water and three phase compositions of Solka-Floc, a cellulose fiber for simulating the biomass in bacteria, yeast, and fungal fermentation were studied in a 1.4 m³ stirred airlift reactor. The fractional dispersed phase holdup and the overall volumetric mass transfer coefficients were measured. The dispersed phase riser gas holdup and overall volumetric mass transfer coefficients both increased with increasing riser superficial dispersed phase velocity (0.02-0.1 ms^-1) and agitator speed in the range of 0-5 rs^-1. An increase in the Solka-Floc concentration (1-3% w/v) was found to reduce ε_GR and K_La_L. Empirical correlations have been developed for fractional dispersed phase gas holdup and overall volumetric mass transfer coefficients.     

Hydrodynamic Modelling of Internal Loop Airlift Reactor Applying Drift‐Flux Model in Bubbly Flow Regime

A new model for the liquid circulation rates in airlift reactor (ALR) is presented. The model is based on the energy balance for the flow loop (riser, turn riser‐downcomer, downcomer, and turn downcomer‐riser) coupled with a drift flux theory of two‐phase flow gas‐liquid system, considering a bubbly flow regime. The predicted values of the liquid circulation rates by the developed model are compared with experimental results performed in a 22 dm³ internal loop airlift reactor and with the results obtained in the literatures. The proposed model predicted the experimental results very well. Slip velocity relationship based on the drift flux model was proposed; including the gas holdup, bubble size and the liquid physical properties. The predicted slip velocity was similar to that obtained from the literature. The study revealed that appropriate arrangements of internal bioreactor parts can positively influence the liquid circulation velocity at the same energy consumption. The proposed models are useful in the design; scale up and characterization of the internal loop airlift reactors, and provides a direct method of predicting hydrodynamic behaviour in gas‐liquid airlift reactors.     

Gas holdup, liquid circulating velocity and mass transfer properties in a mini-scale external loop airlift bubble column

The external loop airlift bubble column has been regarded as a promising type of gas-liquid or gas-liquid-solid biooreactor because of the liquid circulating flow between the riser and downcomer. A mini-scale column is useful and efficient in the process research and development for highly specialized materials such as fine chemicals, advanced bioproducts and biocatalysts utilized in two or three phase system. In this work, a mini-scale glass column of in volume was designed and characterized. The gas holdup ε_G in the riser was obtained by measuring the volume expansion through photographs taken with a digital camera. The liquid circulating velocity U_L was measured by observing the time required for a tracer particle to travel a fixed distance in the downcomer through analysis of the images taken by a video camera. The gas-liquid volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient k_La and liquid-solid oxygen transfer coefficient k_S were determined by our previous method in which the air oxidation of glucose was catalysed by the immobilized glucose oxidase gel beads suspended in the column to obtain a pseudo steady state concentration of the dissolved oxygen and the corresponding constant rate of glucose consumption. It was shown that even such a mini-scale external loop bubble column could be characterized in terms of gas holdup, liquid circulating velocity and mass transfer properties according to our previous correlations proposed for the bench to pilot scale column.     

Development of particle-based biofilms for degradation of xenobiotic organic compounds

The aim of the experiments performed in this work was to develop a biofilm airlift suspension (BAS) process for the degradation of a mixture of organic sulfonates contained in the infiltration water from a contaminated site. To achieve this goal, active biomass growing on the contaminating xenobiotic organics as the sole source of carbon was obtained by enriching a mixed microbial culture sampled from an activated sludge treatment plant. After kinetic characterisation, the enriched culture was inoculated in the BAS reactor, where it colonised carrier particles and formed stable and uniform biofilms. In spite of the slow growth and degradation kinetics (mu(max)=0.014 h(-1)), due to high biomass concentration (up to 12 g(VS)L(-1)) a high rate process was performed in the BAS reactor, achieving a degradation capacity of 8.7 kg(COD)m(-3)d(-1), with an overall degradation efficiency of 70% based on COD measurements.     

气提泵特性研究

研究了水、模拟料液、30%TRPO-煤油体系3种液体在高为6.2m气提泵中的气提特征,并用Parker一维模型对实验结果进行了分析和处理。详尽讨论了提升管管径、输送液体的粘度和表面张力对Parker模型中特征参数K、S的影响。     

高长径比气液固三相内环流反应器的流体动力学

在高径比为22的三相内环流反应器中,常温常压下,根据动量平衡原理建立了空气-水-石英砂三相物系的循环液速模型,并建立了上升区气含率、上升区固含率和底部换向区阻力系数模型;考察了在不同颗粒粒径下,表观气速对上升区固含率和液体循环速度的影响。结果表明:当粒径(ds)≤0.3mm时,上升区固含率随表观气速的增加变化呈平缓趋势,当0.3mmds≤1.2mm时,上升区固含率随表观气速的增加而呈先下降后增加的趋势;不同粒径下上升区循环液速均随表观气速的增加而增加;气含率、固含率和循环液速的计算值和实验值吻合较好,其平均相对误差分别为6.32%、4.56%和11.97%。     

Influence of impeller type on hydrodynamics and gas‐liquid mass‐transfer in stirred airlift bioreactor

The influence of impeller type in a mechanically stirred airlift bioreactor was analyzed in relation to the non‐Newtonian viscous fluids. The agitation was carried out through a marine impeller (axial impeller) and a paddle impeller (radial impeller) located along with the gas sparger in the region comprised by the riser. The bioreactor was sparged with air under different velocities (0.036–0.060 m s^?1). Carboxymethylcellulose 1.94% and xanthan 1.80% were used as a fluid model. The gas holdup and volumetric mass‐transfer coefficient increased in up to five and three times, respectively, when compared to a conventional airlift bioreactor; however, better results were obtained when the straight paddle impeller type was used. The results suggest that the studied bioreactor can be used successfully in viscous fluid, and it can be more efficient than conventional airlift bioreactors. The results obtained suggest the use of radial impellers. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 61: 3159–3171, 2015     

气升式环流反应器内气泡分布的数值模拟

气升式环流反应器广泛应用于湿法冶金工业,如金矿的氰化浸出、铀矿浸出、铜矿浸出以及难处理矿物的生物预氧化等。该类反应器几何结构虽然简单,但合理的设计仍是设备高效运行的保证。为了预测气升式环流反应器的工作效果,使用欧拉双流体模型模拟反应器内包含气泡的气液两相流,并通过不同的相间力模型及自定义湍流子模型描述槽内气泡复杂运动。分析了气泡诱导湍流、升力、湍流分散力等模型在模拟气泡分布时的作用,并将模拟结果与Sokolichin等的试验结果进行比较。结果表明,提出的模拟方法在气升式环流反应器模拟中能够得到准确的流场和气泡分布结果。