SOLID-LIQUID FLOW AT DILUTE CONCENTRATIONS IN AN AXIALLY STIRRED VESSEL INVESTIGATED USING PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY

Particle image velocimetry (PIV) has been used to quantify velocities and turbulence levels of the continuous and dispersed phases in a vessel agitated by a 45° pitched-blade turbine (PBT). To be able to measure velocities of both the continuous and dispersed phases in suspensions with a concentration of solids up to 1.5% by volume, a technique using matching of refractive indices in combination with image analysis to separate the phases was applied. It is found that the measurement technique works well and that 600 recordings are sufficient to estimate mean and RMS velocities. The mean velocities of both phases decrease while the RMS velocities increase as the solid content increases. The decrease in velocity is to a large extent a result of the impeller discharge being diverted towards the vertical tank wall at a distance from the tank bottom that increases with increasing volume fraction.     

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF LAMINAR SOLID-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW IN STIRRED TANKS

Laminar flow of solid-liquid suspension has been rarely reported in the literature. In this article, the laminar solid-liquid two-phase flow in a lab-scale stirred tank is measured with digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) and numerically simulated with the improved inner-outer iterative method. The simulation results show good agreement with the present data. In the range of low solid volume concentration under investigation, solid particles have minor impact on two-phase flow, and the simulated flow fields of both phases are similar to the counterpart of single-phase laminar liquid flow. The comparison of simulation with experiments of single-phase laminar flow shows reasonable agreement. These observations suggest that the numerical method employed in the present study is reliable for analysis of stirred tanks. The influence of impeller off-bottom clearance on velocities is found significant: the lower the impeller, the smaller the radial and axial velocities, and the higher the solid concentration.     

APPLICATION OF HOT-FILM ANEMOMETRY TO AIR-WATER FLOW IN AERATED STIRRED TANKS

The subject of this paper is the evaluation of the applicability of constant temperature anemometry (CTA) with a modified version of Delhaye's method to aerated stirred tanks. A calibration technique that takes into account the variation in medium temperature was developed and verified experimentally. The directional sensitivity of the conical film probe was investigated in a streamline flow field as well as in the impeller discharge stream in an stirred tank.

The reliability of the setup and the technique was verified through the comparison of the vertical and radial velocity profiles of water in a stirred tank with those obtained from the literature. The directional response of the conical probe follows the cosine law for intersection angles smaller than 45° in a streamline flow field, but the directional sensitivity in the impeller discharge stream is rather poor, owing to the rolling characteristics of flow in this region. Due to the inability to detect bubbles smaller than the sensing element of the conical probe, the CTA usually gives lower values of local gas holdup. However, this discrepancy is considered to have no influence on the velocity measurement.     

ORIGINAL TITLE: INTERPRETATION OF MICROMIXING EFFECTS ON FAST CONSECUTIVE-COMPETITIVE REACTIONS IN SEMI-BATCH STIRRED TANKS BY A SIMPLE INTERACTION MODEL

Liquid-liquid equilibrium data for two ternary systems were obtained. The experimental data were measured for cyclohexane-toluene-sulfolane at 17, 25 and 50°C, and for hexane-toluene-sulfolane at 18 and 25°C. The NTRL and UNIQUAC models were used to correlate the experimental results and to calculate the phase compositions of the ternary systems. The agreement between the experimental results and the fitted values was equally good with both of the models.     

应用热膜风速仪测定搅拌槽内气—液两相流的流体力学参数

开发应用了恒温热膜风速仪（简称ＣＴＡ）来测定搅拌槽内气－液两相流的局部气含率、液体的时均速度及脉动速度的均方根值。根据柱形热膜探头以及气－液搅拌槽内流体流动特性，改进了用电压概率密度法＾［１］划分气－液搅拌槽内气液两相信号的方法，在此基础上得到了局部气含率、液体的时均速度及脉动脉动速度均方根值的计算公式。研究了热膜探头偏角及流体介质温度变化对热膜风速仪测量精度的影响，并对流体介质温度的影响进行了校     

A MODEL OF THE TURBULENT BURST PHENOMENON: TRANSITIONAL TURBULENT FULLY DEVELOPED FLOW IN CIRCULAR TUBES

The surface renewal approach is used in this paper to analyze transitional turbulent, fully developed flow in circular tubes. The analysis involves a minimum level of empiricism and gives rise to calculations for mean velocity distribution and friction factor that are consistent with experimental data for laminar, transitional turbulent, and fully turbulent conditions.     

MASS TRANSFER IN AC ELECTROLYSIS: EXTENSION OF A FILM MODEL TO TURBULENT FLOW ON A ROTATING HEMISPHERE

Turbulent mass transfer to a rotating hemisphere during AC electrolysis was examined with a film model. The analytical results for the limiting AC current density were compared to the experimental data obtained with sinusoidal, square and triangular wave AC. The limiting AC current density in turbulent flow was found to depend on both the Reynolds number as a dimensionless AC frequency K = (ω/Ω)Sc^1/3 The prediction by the film model agreed with the experimental data to within ±15%. For a given root-mean-square of applied AC, the periodic concentration overpotential decreased in the order of quare, sinusoidal, and triangular AC. The phase shift between the applied AC and the concentration overpotential wave decreased with increasing Reynolds number in turbulent flow.     

MASS TRANSFER IN AC ELECTROLYSIS: EXTENSION OF A FILM MODEL TO TURBULENT FLOW ON A ROTATING HEMISPHERE

Turbulent mass transfer to a rotating hemisphere during AC electrolysis was examined with a film model. The analytical results for the limiting AC current density were compared to the experimental data obtained with sinusoidal, square and triangular wave AC. The limiting AC current density in turbulent flow was found to depend on both the Reynolds number as a dimensionless AC frequency K = (ω/Ω)Sc^1/3 The prediction by the film model agreed with the experimental data to within ±15%. For a given root-mean-square of applied AC, the periodic concentration overpotential decreased in the order of quare, sinusoidal, and triangular AC. The phase shift between the applied AC and the concentration overpotential wave decreased with increasing Reynolds number in turbulent flow.     

MASS TRANSFER IN AC ELECTROLYSIS: EXTENSION OF A FILM MODEL TO TURBULENT FLOW ON A ROTATING HEMISPHERE

Turbulent mass transfer to a rotating hemisphere during AC electrolysis was examined with a film model. The analytical results for the limiting AC current density were compared to the experimental data obtained with sinusoidal, square and triangular wave AC. The limiting AC current density in turbulent flow was found to depend on both the Reynolds number as a dimensionless AC frequency K = (ω/Ω)Sc^1/3. The prediction by the film model agreed with the experimental data to within ±15%. For a given root-mean-square of applied AC, the periodic concentration overpotential decreased in the order of quare, sinusoidal, and triangular AC. The phase shift between the applied AC and the concentration overpotential wave decreased with increasing Reynolds number in turbulent flow.