鼓泡塔中气泡尺寸分布和局部气含率研究

在内径为0.38 m的鼓泡塔中采用双电导探针法对不同通气速率下的气泡尺寸分布和局部气含率进行了实验研究,分析了气泡尺寸的概率密度分布。结果表明:气泡尺寸随轴向高度的增加而增大,随径向距离增加而减小;鼓泡塔中气液流动可分为过渡流域和充分发展流域,在过渡流域气含率随轴向高度增加而增大,在充分发展流域气含率趋于均值,径向局部气含率分布呈抛物线型下降。高气速下气泡尺寸概率密度分布比低气速下宽,且随轴向高度的增加分布变宽。     

浆态床鼓泡反应器中气含率的分布

为了解浆态床鼓泡反应器中气含率的分布规律,在浆态床鼓泡反应器冷模试验装置中,以空气-液体石蜡-氧化铝微球为试验介质对装置内部的气含率进行研究。利用压差法研究了表观气速、浆液固含量等操作条件对反应器床层总体气含率的影响,利用光纤探针法研究了浆态床反应器不同操作条件对局部气含率的影响,总结了反应器内部气含率的分布规律,并由此对工业浆态床鼓泡反应器的设计进行了研究。结果表明:浆态床反应器的总体气含率随表观气速的增大而增大,固体细颗粒的加入能适当降低总体气含率;在反应器底部,分布器对气体的均布作用明显,但表观气速的增大能够弱化分布器的作用;在反应器的中上部气含率不受分布器的影响,沿反应器径向呈现"中间高,边缘低"的分布趋势;在工业费托浆态床中,表观气速不宜低于0.12 m/s,内过滤系统适宜设置于反应器中上部靠近器壁的位置。     

气体分布方式对带列管内构件的鼓泡塔流动规律的影响

在带列管内构件的鼓泡塔内测量了4种不同布气方式下的气含率和液速径向分布,并与无列管内构件的空塔中的分布进行了比较。结果表明：中心布气条件下气含率与液速的径向分布比空塔更为陡峭;环隙及近壁布气时呈现出环隙高、两边低的马鞍形分布;均匀布气时径向分布较空塔更为平坦。空塔内气体分布器的影响是局部性的,充分发展段在塔内占主要部分;而在列管塔中气体分布器的影响是全局性的,气含率与液速的初始分布决定着其全塔分布。在带列管的大型鼓泡塔中难以观察到充分发展段的存在,因此,气体分布器的设计具有比空塔更为重要的意义     

Improved gas holdup in novel bubble column

This investigation reports the experimental and theoretical results carried out to evaluate the gas holdup for air–water system in a novel hybrid rotating and reciprocating perforated plate bubble column under countercurrent condition. The response of this hybrid column is found to be similar to that of reciprocating plate column (RPC) showing mixer‐settler, transition, and emulsion regions. The effect of agitation level, superficial gas velocity, superficial liquid velocity, perforation diameter, and plate spacing on gas holdup is studied and found to be significant. The gas holdup is found to be least in the range of agitation level of 1.3–1.5 cm/s. For all the superficial gas and liquid velocities considered in this present investigation, the critical agitation level at minimum gas holdup remains nearly same. The gas holdup in this hybrid column is 1.2–1.7 times higher in mixer‐settler region and 2.1–2.7 times higher in emulsion region than that of RPC. Correlations have been developed and found to concur with the experimental values. It can be used with 95% accuracy. © 2011 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering     

Gas holdup in a bubble column with immikible liquid mixtures

Experimental measurement of gas holdup was carried out in a medium-size gas-liquid-liquid bubble column with a multiple nozzle sparger plate using air, water and organic liquids. It was found that the fractional holdup depends on gas velocity, liquid properties, phase inversion in the liquid mixture as well as spreading coefficient of the organic liquid. In the presence of a liquid with a negative spreading coefficient the holdup is a minimum at the phase inversion point. but the reverse is true for a liquid with a positive coefficient of spreading. Observed bubble characteristics have been discussed. Correlations for gas holdup have been developed for different ranges of liquid composition.     

Gas hold-up in non-newtonian solutions in a bubble column with internals

Bubble characteristics and gas hold-up were studied in a two phase (air-aqueous CMC solution) bubble column provided with helical coils and straight tubes as internals. The effects of superficial gas velocity, rheological properties, and volume fraction covered by the internals, on gas hold-up were studied. Hold-up values determined directly and by simultaneous pressure drop measurements matched well. Enhancement of gas hold-up values up to 55 per cent was achieved in systems using internals. The gas hold-up results were also compared with the values obtained from correlations reported in the literature.     

Characterizing regime transitions in a bubble column with internals

Effects of internals on flow regimes are systematically investigated in a lab-scale bubble column (BC) through six approaches: total gas holdup, drift-flux, standard deviation, fractal analysis, chaos analysis and wavelet analysis. With increasing internals-covered cross-sectional area (CSA), these methods give various value of the first transitional superficial gas velocity, as different scales of structures are detected to characterize regime transition. While internals are found to have marginal effect on total gas holdup, significant change in gas-holdup structure is discovered, showing a decrease in large-bubbles holdup and an increase in small-bubbles holdup in transitional and churn-turbulent regimes. We propose a novel approach based on wavelet analysis to demarcate the boundaries among micro-, meso-, and macro-scales. The energy fraction of these representative scales identifies two transitional velocities, suggesting that internals advance the advent of first transition and delay the second one. The operating window of transitional regime is, therefore, remarkably extended.     

鼓泡床内气体分布器设计及其对水力学的影响

本文比较了目前常用的几种分布器，通过照像法观察了三种分布器（单孔板、多孔板和烧结金属板）上的气泡形成过程，然后测定了这三种分布器的于板压降和湿板压降，并就它们对水力学条件的影响进行了考察。其结果对鼓泡床内分布器的设计具有一定的参考价值。     

Prediction of dispersed phase holdup in a modified multi‐stage bubble column scrubber

This paper reports on the experimental investigation carried out to evaluate fractional dispersed phase holdup for a gas‐liquid mixture in a modified multi‐stage bubble column (with contraction and expansion disks), which has been conceived, designed and fabricated as a wet scrubber for control of air pollution; in addition it has versatile use as a gas‐liquid contactor in chemical process industries. A correlation developed for predicting fractional dispersed phase holdup has been found to be encouraging and highly significant from statistical analysis.     

Heat transfer and gas holdup studies in a bubble column: Air-water-sand system

Air-holdup and heat transfer coefficient data are reported for the air-water and air-water-sand system as a function of air velocity in the temperature range 297-343 K as measured in a 0.305 m diameter bubble column operating in semi-batch mode and equipped with either a five- or seven-tube bundle. A 65 μm average size sand powder is used at concentrations of 5 and 10 mass percent in the slurry. Available correlations of gas holdup and heat transfer coefficients are examined on the basis of these data. These are found inappropriate and inadequate for representing these experimental data. Gas holdup data are well represented by an approach based on Nicklin's (1962) work, and heat transfer data are adequately represented by a simple semi-empirical expression. Accurate experimental data on additional systems are needed to develop a reliable heat transfer theory particularly for process representation at temperatures higher than ambient.     

Flow regimes and mass transfer in counter-current bubble columns

Counter current bubble columns have the feature that specific gas-liquid interfacial area and gas holdup are larger than those for standard and cocurrent bubble columns. In this study, three different flow regimes, churn-turbulent flow, bubble flow and bubble down-flow, have been observed in a counter-current bubble column and correlations of gas holdup and volumetric liquid-phase mass transfer coefficient have been proposed as functions of operating variables such as the superficial velocities of gas and liquid, the gas-liquid slip velocity and the liquid properties.     

Influence of structured packing on gas holdup in a three-phase bubble column

In this work, the influence of structured packing on gas holdup in gas-liquid-solid dispersions has been studied. The experiments were carried out in an empty column and in column containing structured packing operating under identical conditions. Glass beads and silicon carbide particles were used as the solid material and the volumetric fraction of solids was varied from 0% to around 10%. The liquid viscosity was strongly modified using water, CMC solution and glycerol. The experimental results obtained with both columns were compared with previous results obtained in two-phase bubble columns. The influence of structured packing on the total gas holdup for different superficial gas velocities was found to be similar with and without suspended solids. Therefore, the results obtained in this work were analysed on the basis of correlations derived earlier for gas-liquid dispersions. Excepting the results obtained with glycerol, these correlations can predict the gas holdup of three-phase bubble columns with reasonable accuracy.     

Frictional loss in multiplate bubble columns

Gas holdup and pressure loss were measured for various gas-liquid systems in a batch, multistage bubble column. Experimental results show that the use of screen plates (α = 0.64) considerably increases the gas holdup but introduces a significant pressure loss for the two-phase mixture. The pressure loss was found to be independent of physical properties of the mixture, and predictable either from the modified separated flow model (Chen et al., 1986) or from the kinetic energy loss based on the liquid circulation velocity.     

Axial mixing and gas holdup with reciprocating doughnut plates

A 15 cm diameter reciprocating plate column has been operated under gas—liquid flow conditions with a stack of doughnut‐type plates having inner and outer diameters of 7.5 cm and 13.0 cm, respectively. Axial dispersion coefficients and gas holdup have been measured. It is found that this type of plate gives lower axial dispersion coefficients than a previously tested doughnut plate having an outer diameter almost the same as the column internal diameter, but the gas retention times are slightly lower.     

A gas holdup model for cocurrent air-water-fiber bubble columns

A gas holdup model is developed for cocurrent air-water-fiber bubble column flows using the drift-flux model. The model coefficients are estimated using a nonlinear least square method and systematically acquired experimental data. The model correlates gas holdup with superficial gas and liquid velocity, and fiber type and mass fraction. The model reproduces most experimental data within ±10% error and all but 3 of the 3839 experimental data points within ±15% error. It also accurately predicts air-water bubble column gas holdup data; these data were not used in estimating the model coefficients. The physical implications of the model coefficients are also discussed.     

The role of gas phase momentum in determining gas holdup and hydrodynamic flow regimes in bubble column operations

Experiments conducted in 0.15 m diameter bubble columns using water and non-aqueous liquids have shown that the gas velocity at which transition from the bubbly flow to the churn-turbulent flow regime occurs is a function of gas density. The transition velocity increased with increasing gas density. The direct effect of gas density on gas holdup in the bubbly flow regime is small with only a slight increase in holdup being observed at higher densities (?_G α ρ_g ^0.04). In the churnturbulent region a much greater effect of gas density on gas holdup was observed. These differences were found to be a direct function of the differences in holdup values at the transition points. Gas holdup was found to be a function of the gas phase momentum. In the bubbly flow regime holdup was directly proportional to momentum while in the churn-turbulent regime holdup was proportional to momentum to the one third power. Reasons for this behaviour are discussed, as well as the implied effects on liquid mixing in bubble column slurry reactors. The effects of gas density may offer an explanation for some apparently anomalous published results.     

含垂直列管束内构件鼓泡塔的CFD模拟

针对含有密集垂直列管束内构件的气液鼓泡塔,在两相Euler二维轴对称k-ε模型中,分别考虑气相和液相受到的列管阻力。通过引入相应的动量源、湍动源以及耗散源建立带列管内构件的鼓泡塔二维CFD模型。模型能清晰、准确地描述带列管束鼓泡塔中气液流动的特征:"烟囱效应"以及分布器影响区延长。计算得到的气含率以及液速的二维分布在宽泛的表观气速(0.12～0.62 m·s^-1)范围内与实验值相符。