An investigation of mass transfer in a countercurrent three-phase fluidized bed

The rate of absorption with chemical reaction has been measured in a bed of solid spheres fluidized by upward flowing gas and irrigated by downward flowing liquid for different reactant concentrations in the liquid phase and different values of the liquid superficial velocity.Values of the effective inerfacial area per unit volume of a static bed, a, and the gas-film mass-transfer coefficient, k_g, are reported as functions of the liquid superficial velocity.