Radial mixing and residence times in the liquid phase in gas-liquid annular flow in vertical tubes

Theory for calculating the mean velocities of the drops and of the film in gas-liquid cocurrent annular flow by use of tracer pulse techniques has been developed. It is shown that the interaction between the film and the drops affects the mean residence times in each, and is much greater in its effect than is axial dispersion in the film or in the core. The theory also describes a relatively simple means of determining the mean amounts of droplet entrainment and liquid interchange between droplets and film from measurements made with continuous tracer injection. Knowledge of the entrainment and the mean velocities of film and drops is essential in determining the extent of interaction between the liquid film and the entrained liquid flow.     

微型流化床反应器液相冷态进样停留时间分布模拟与实验

为了得出气、液相流量变化对微型流化床反应器液相停留时间的影响规律,借助Fluent软件对反应器内部流场进行数值模拟,得到其速度、压力分布特性和反应器出口液相浓度的变化曲线。采用示踪剂侧面脉冲进样法,实验测定了反应器中液相的停留时间分布。结果表明,气相流量和液相流量均对液相停留时间有明显的影响,气、液相流量为4¹0L/h时,液相平均停留时间可以控制在1.1110L/h时,液相平均停留时间可以控制在1.11¹.89s;气、液相流量的增加均会导致液相停留时间的减少,但气相流量对停留时间的影响要大于液相流量对液相停留时间的影响。数值模拟与实验数据对比分析发现二者结果吻合良好,模型可用。     

环状流液滴夹带率测量方法及分析

针对气液两相环状流液膜参数溯源问题,设计了一种液膜在线提取装置和基于液膜质量流量测量的夹带率测量方法。该装置利用超声波测距传感器对储液箱液位进行实时监测并反馈至控制系统,利用单片机控制抽气泵开关实现对环状流多孔渗水介质管段内外差压调节控制液膜析出速率,使用换向器实现计量和废液管路切换并记录两次切换之间的时间间隔。利用精密电子天平对取出液膜进行称重测量,结合记录时间和液相质量流量计测量结果实现液膜质量流量和液滴夹带率等参数的测量。在小口径高精度气液两相流模拟装置进行了75组实流验证实验,并结合两种典型夹带率模型预测结果对测量系统进行了科学评价。研究结果表明,液膜质量流量和液滴夹带率测量结果可溯源,测量准确度高,为研究气液两相环状流液膜流动特性提供了一种可靠的实验测试方法。     

水平管环状流液膜厚度与波动参数分布

环状流是常见的一种气液两相流流型,基于双平行电导探针阵列传感器设计了环状流液膜动态测量系统,以水和空气为介质,进行了气相表观流速15~35 m/s、液相表观流速0.1~0.4 m/s范围内的水平管环状流周向液膜测量实验,分析了水平管环状流的液膜厚度、相界面波动参数的空间分布与发展变化规律。结果表明,水平管环状流底部液膜厚度随气相表观流速的增加而减小,随液相表观流速的增加而增大,但在高液相表观流速时有饱和趋势,对应条件下周向其他位置的液膜厚度持续增大,尤其在45°位置显著增大,下半周液膜分布趋于平缓;由底部到顶部,液膜波速和波频在周向上均呈逐渐减小趋势,与液膜厚度的分布规律一致,大幅度的扰动波主要分布在底部;底部液膜波速和波频随气相表观流速增加而增大,液相表观流速增加时,波速随之增大,但波频无明显变化,对应波长增大。     

金属波纹板规整填料塔中液体有效流速

<正>填料塔以压降小、通量大、持液量小、分离效率高等优点广泛应用于精馏和吸收等单元操作中。填料塔中液体的流体力学行为对精馏等传质过程有重要影响,而液体在填料塔中的有效流速是液体流体力学行为的重要参数。例如描述填料塔中液相返混通常用一维或二维扩散模型,其中的有效流速就是重要的方程参数;要精确描述填料塔中相界面的传质行为,液相的真实流速也是关键性的参数。目前一般采用Bravo提出的公式来计算规整填料塔内液体的有效速度     

气液旋流器内液相平均停留时间

旋流设备内伴有传热、传质或反应过程时,介质停留时间是其关键参数。在冷模实验装置上,采用持液量法,对气液旋流器内液相平均停留时间进行了研究。结果表明,液相停留时间随入口含液率增大明显降低,随入口气速增大降低较小。气液界面剪切力远小于液相重力是入口气速对液相停留时间影响较小的主要原因。基于液膜受力平衡,建立了气液旋流器内液相平均停留时间模型。模型预测停留时间与实测值总体吻合良好,在液膜Reynolds数Re_l< 1200范围内,模型预测停留时间偏大,讨论了模型预测偏差与液膜流型的关系。     

喷动床中气体停留时间分布的研究

In a spouted bed of 80mm in ID and 1700mm in height, the gas residence time distributions at different radial positions in both spout and annular area were measured with five different kinds of particles as spouting material, air as spouting gas, and hydrogen as tracer. The effects of superficial gas velocity, operating pressure, particle size and its category on gas residence time distribution were discussed. It was found that the gas velocity profile in spout was more uniform than that in annulus. It could be concluded that the gas flow in the spout could be treated as a plug-flow, while that in the annulus inhibited a strong non-ideal flow behavior. Increasing the superficial gas velocity and decreasing the operating pressure, the particle density and its size gave rise to spouting disturbance, thus the measured tracer concentrations vs. time curves fluctuated. The variances of residence time distribution curves could be taken as a measure of the gas fluctuation degree.     

Flow non-uniformities in packed beds: Effect on dispersion

A general equation is derived for the dispersion coefficient in a packed bed under conditions of non-uniform, one dimensional flow. Predictions of the theory are analyzed for the simple case of two concentric annular regions in a cylindrical packed bed with different void fractions. Small differences in void fraction can lead to significant changes in the dispersion coefficient for the packed bed, both in laminar and turbulent flow regimes. The radial variations of the average residence time and spread of a pulse of non-reactive tracer are investigated.     

SK静态混合器内各截面停留时间分布实验研究

采用脉冲示踪法对SK静态混合器内各截面的停留时间进行了实验测试,比较了流量对各截面停留时间分布的影响.结果表明:在同一截面上,随着流量增加,平均停留时间减小,停留时间分布密度曲线变得高而窄;在相同流量下,沿着轴线方向,平均停留时间增大,量纲一方差减小,流体流动趋向于活塞流.同一截面上,随着流量增加应答峰初期的斜率较陡,...     

Determining axial dispersion coefficients of pilot-scale annular pulsed disc and doughnut columns

In this study, a computational fluid dynamics(CFD) method was adopted to calculate axial dispersion coefficients of annular pulsed disc and doughnut columns(APDDCs). Passive tracer was uniformly injected by pulse input at the continuous phase inlet, and its concentration governing equation was solved in liquid–liquidtwo-phase flow fields. The residence time distributions(RTDs) were obtained using the surface monitoring technique. The adopted RTD–CFD method was verified by comparing the axial dispersion coefficient between simulation and experimental results in the literature. However, in pilot-scale APDDCs, the axial dispersion coefficients predicted by the CFD–RTD method were approximately three times larger than experimental results determined by the steady-state concentration profile method. This experimental method was demonstrated to be insensitive to the variation of the axial dispersion coefficient. The CFD–RTD method was more recommended to determine the axial dispersion coefficient. It was found that the axial dispersion coefficient increased with an increase in pulsation intensity, column diameter, and plate spacing, but was little affected by the throughput.     

竖直窄矩形通道内环状流的流动传热特性

为了研究竖直窄矩形通道内环状流的流动传热特性,建立了窄矩形通道内环状流的数学物理模型,并进行了实验验证。通过数值求解环状流的数学物理模型得到了环状流区域的压降梯度、沸腾传热系数和液膜内的速度分布。结果表明窄矩形通道内的环状流模型能够很好地预测环状流区域的压降梯度和沸腾传热系数,而且环状流液膜内速度在法向的分布是非线性的,在层流边界层区速度梯度较大。热通量和窄矩形通道的尺寸对液膜的流速有很大影响,随热通量的增加和窄矩形通道尺寸的减小液膜的流速逐渐增加,然而质量流速对液膜流速的影响较小,而且随质量流速的增加液膜的速度逐渐减小。     

撞击流反应器撞击区流动特性研究

为研究撞击区的流动特性,在有效容积为160 L的撞击流反应器内,以水为介质,饱和KCl溶液为示踪剂,用电导法测定了不同导流筒出口间距和撞击流速下的示踪剂浓度曲线,并通过多釜串联模型拟合得到了撞击区的平均停留时间及模拟釜数。结果表明:导流筒出口间距减小,撞击流速增大,撞击区平均停留时间减小,釜数减小;撞击流速为2.0 m/s时,撞击区内流型接近于全混流。停留时间分布主要受撞击流速的影响,增大流速有利于促进撞击区中的宏观混合。     

Numerical study on the hydrodynamics behavior of a central insert microchannel

In this work, the computational fluid dynamics method is used to study the liquid hydrodynamics behavior in the microchannel without central insert (MC1) and the central insert microchannel (MC2), respectively. The maximum deviation between simulation and experiment is 24%. The formations of flow patterns are explained based on contours and force analysis where the flow pattern maps are established by two-phase flow rate. The effects of aqueous phase viscosity and two-phase flow rate on the characteristic sizes of each flow pattern are also explored. Specifically, four unconventional flow patterns are found in MC2, namely the unique droplet flow, the unique slug flow, the unique coarse annular flow and the unique film annular flow. Though the insert occupies part of the channel, the pressure difference in the channel is significantly reduced compared with MC1. Moreover, the insert significantly changes the formation velocity range of each flow pattern, greatly broadens the formation range of annular flow and also has an important influence on the characteristic size of the flow pattern. The organic-phase dimensionless axial size (L_o/W) and the dimensionless radial size (D_o/W) of the droplet (slug) are negatively related to the aqueous-phase viscosity (μ_a) and flow rate (u_a). The D_o/W of the annular is negatively correlated with μ_a and positively correlated with organic-phase flow rate (u_o). This study provides direct numerical evidence that the insert is key to the formation of bicontinuous phase flow pattern, as well as further strengthens our understanding of the flow characteristics and optimization design of insert microchannels.     

Simulation and experiment study on adhesive ejection behavior in jetting dispenser

In this paper, fundamental equations for jetting dispenser are presented to express the influence of adhesive pressure, nozzle diameter, and needle movement law, and the equations are then verified by flow behavior simulation. Subsequently, a novel jetting dispenser system is built to finish experiments about the mentioned influence parameters, and simulation results verify the regularities from experiment are correct. Flow velocity in the central nozzle will be faster and radius of the droplet will be bigger if the pressure in the chamber became higher, flow velocity in the central nozzle will be constant and the radius of the droplet will be bigger if the dead time became longer, and bigger nozzle diameter can lead to faster flow velocity in the central nozzle and bigger droplet. Besides, these mentioned works prove that our designed jetting dispenser is practical and useful for adhesive jetting.     

A new approach to analyzing residence time and mixing in a co-rotating twin screw extruder

A series of experiments was conducted to determine what correlations exist between an experimental parameter, percent drag flow, and other parameters such as head, tail and mean residence time. Experimentation was carried out on two polymer systems, a model system of near-Newtonian fluid and a viscoelastic system of polyisoprene with several additives. To aid in the residence time analysis, data from three literature sources were cited and replotted. A family of residence time curves for a partially filled system can be combined into one curve by plotting the number of screw revolutions carrying the tracer to the extruder exit versus the percent drag flow. This method of plotting the data for each screw configuration estimates the mean residence time for any throughput and screw speed once a few data points are taken. In all four sets of experiments, the number of screw revolutions carrying the tracer to the exit decreases with increasing percent drag flow. The filled volume of the extruder was calculated from residence time data to show that percent drag flow is linearly related to extruder filled volume. When percent drag flow increased in the viscoelastic system the following results were recorded: fraction of polymer residence time spent in conveying elements increased, fraction of residence time spent in mixing elements decreased, polymer Mooney viscosity increased, number and weight average molecular weights increased and polydispersivity increased.     

Measurement of residence time distribution in microfluidic systems

We present a method for measuring the residence time distribution (RTD) in microfluidic systems. A piezoelectrically actuated sample injector releases approximately 100 nl of tracer liquid into a microchannel of rectangular cross section. The spreading of the tracer pulse in pressure-driven microflows is monitored with fluorescence microscopy measurements. Residence time distributions are determined for single-phase liquid and segmented gas-liquid microflows, with the RTD being significantly narrower for the latter case. The selected flow conditions are relevant to synthesis in microreactors with residence times up to several minutes.     

环状流起始点初始携带份额的分析计算

目前大多数研究采用液膜干涸模型预测气液两相环状流的临界热通量,其中确定环状流起始点、起始点和平衡状态的携带份额、携带现象的发生条件、液滴沉积率以及携带率对模型的计算精度都起着决定性的作用。通过大量研究目前已经得到了适用于不同条件下的经验关联式来预测此模型中的大多数参数,然而环状流起始点的初始携带份额至今仍需通过假设来确定。本文对蒸气-水为工质,压力为0.18～0.27 MPa条件下得到的实验数据进行了分析,通过计算值与实验值的对比提出了初始携带份额的经验关联式。比较结果表明,计算值与实验值的偏差在20%以内。     

Longitudinal mixing in horizontal rotary drum reactors

The longitudinal mixing of sodium carbonate (soda) (mean particle size 137 μm) has been investigated in a laboratory horizontal rotary drum reactor 250 mm in diameter and 600 mm long. The distributions of residence times have been estimated by means of a pulse of a small amount of sodium bicarbonate. The concentration of the tracer at the reactor discharge has been evaluated by thermal decomposition of the samples and by measuring their weight loss.The hold-ups, the mean residence times and the variances of the distribution of residence times were evaluated as a function of the rotational speed of the reactor and the feed rate of the particles. By applying a dispersion model, the Peclet numbers were evaluated from the standardized variances and plotted as a function of the feed rate and rotational speed. The mean residence time of the particles was calculated by means of an extended model of Vahl and Kingma. They correspond with the experiments.     

基于环雾流理论的气井临界流速预测模型

井筒积液是伴随气井生产的常见现象，积液会导致气井产量降低，严重时甚至会使得气井停产。精确的积液预测有助于及时采取措施以减少积液带来的危害，而临界气体流速是气井积液预测的关键。回顾了气井积液预测的相关研究，指出了最小压降模型、液滴模型的局限性，基于现有实验观察认为液膜模型有较好的适用性。考虑到斜井中液膜周向不均匀分布及气相核心中液滴夹带，提出了更符合实际的环雾流模型用于不同管径、不同井斜角下的气井积液预测。基于以往室内实验数据和现场生产数据，将新模型与现有6种积液预测模型进行对比评价。综合考虑模型预测结果正确率及预测误差，认为新的环雾流模型较其他模型预测结果更优，可准确方便地对气井积液进行预测。