板波纹规整填料塔中液相混合行为

引言填料塔中液相混合行为对传质有显著影响．关于散堆填料塔中液相轴向混合行为已有许多实验数据和一些模型发表,文献中对散堆填料塔径向混合行为也有一些研究．但对目前工业广泛使用的板波纹规整填料塔中的液相混合行为尚未见文献报道．为了解决板波纹填料塔中各种单元操作的合理设计,本文对此进行了研究．1实验本文用脉冲示踪法研究规整填料塔中液体的混合行为．实验在直径0.3m的填料塔中进行,塔体总高为7m,填料装填高度为1.4m．塔顶液体分布器为单层排管式分布器,共开有25个Φ3.5mm的喷淋孔．用水－空气系统及Mellapak250Y型填料…     

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     

加压下板波纹规整填料塔中液相混合行为

采用脉冲示踪法测量了在0．3MPa、0．5MPa和0．6MPa压力下以及在一系列液速和气速下250Y型孔板波纹规整填料内液相的混合行为。应用时域最小二乘法由实验数据得到了液相的轴向返混系数和轴向有效流速等参数,并以y=aReL^e10^cReG10^dp的形式对轴向Peclet准数进行了关联。本研究补充了目前缺乏的加压操作下规整填料液相混合行为的数据。     

规整填料塔液相混合的研究

本文采用点源脉冲示踪的方法考察了装填２５０ Ｙ 型金属板波纹规整填料的填料塔中的轴向及径向返混。在规整填料塔的顶部注入 Ｋ Ｍｎ Ｏ４ 作为示踪剂,从塔的底部的不同径向位置取样。通过最优化方法计算出轴向返混系数 Ｄｚ 和径向返混系数 Ｄｒ,研究了液相和气相对规整填料的返混的影响,并就液相和气相对返混影响做了初步解释。实验结果表明：径向扩散系数和轴向扩散系数随气速和液体流速的增大而增大。得到轴向和径向混合系数的彼克列数（ Ｐｅｚ , Ｐｅｒ） 与液相和气相的表观雷诺数（ Ｒｅ１ , Ｒｅｇ） 的关联式。     

规整填料塔气液传质基础理论研究进展

填料塔中气液两相的流体流动与分布、返混、传质问题一直是影响填料塔传质性能的重要因素,对规整填料塔内的气液两相流动与分布、返混、气液两相在常压和高压下的传质特性、Marangoni效应以及计算流体力学(CFD)在规整填料塔中的应用等方面的国内外研究进展进行了综述.     

丝网波纹填料塔液泛水力学特征

在炼油、石油化工、精细化厂、食品及医药等部门,塔器均属量大面广的重要单元设备,其投资-般占投资总额的20%左右,有些甚至高达50%,塔器广泛应用于蒸馏、吸收、萃取、洗涤、传热等单元操作中。因此塔器的研究一直受到国内外学者普遍关注。由于规整填料塔具有效率高、压降低、放大效应不明显等优点,使其应用越来越广泛^[1-2]。同时填料塔也是过程工业中能量消耗最大的单元操作之一。在设计填料塔时,一般按液泛气速的60%~70%确定载点气速,按液泛气速的50%~60%确定操作气速。尤其在工业实际应用中,大部分操作都是依据长期积累的操作经验使填料塔工作在所谓的"最优化"操作状态,因此填料塔的操作状态都比较保守,目的都是为了避免塔器在长周期运行过程中发生液泛而停产,给企业带来经济损失。液泛现象一直以来都是制约填料塔设计和提高填料塔能量利用率的瓶颈问题,所以关于预测控制填料塔液泛性能的研究是填料塔优化节能研究的关键^[3-4]。只要能对填料塔的操作状态进行实时监控,根据填料塔工作监控的特征参数,可以实时和及时地调整填料塔的操作性能,从而避免填料塔发生液泛,同时根据工艺和生产的需要实时改变填料塔的操作性能,使得填料塔工作在最优化的状态,也符合节能减排的目的。有关填料塔液泛水力学方面的研究已经有很长一段时间。早期的很多研究者都是从散堆填料的研究推广到规整填料的研究,Sherwood等^[5-6]在测定填料塔水力学压降实验的基础上,讨论了填料塔的载液和液泛现象,并提出了压降通用关联图(GDPC)。Eckert等^[7-9]得到了不同填料类型填料塔水力学压降液泛曲线图。Kuzniewska-Lach^[10]以量纲1方法对填料塔流体物性和填料几何参数进行了分析,提出了基于填料类型的泛点预测。Ondracek等^[11]通过填料塔气体或液体入口速度周期性波动操作,进行了液泛滞后效应的实验研究,对工业塔操作更接近液泛点有一定的指导作用。根据上面的这些研究,分析预测填料塔液泛特征的规律,需要从不同方面进行深入的研究。本文以空气和水为实验介质,研究了规整填料塔在各个操作阶段的水力学特征及区别,得到了填料塔液泛水力学压降离散特征分布规律和压降频率分布规律,为预测控制填料塔液泛现象提供了指导。     

规整填料在饱和热水塔中的应用

目前,国内饱和热水塔中填料以陶瓷和铝质矩鞍环为主。生产过程中,气液量的频繁波动,使得塔中填料极易破损、变形,造成填料碎片从箅子板上泄漏至塔底,或被气流带到气相出口管中,严重威胁热水泵和压缩机的正常运行。全塔的阻力逐渐上升,导致半水煤气出饱和塔气温与热水进热水塔水温相差较小,只有10～20 ℃,蒸汽量增加,能量损失大,整个饱和塔操作处于恶性循环状态。规整填料是我国近期开发的新型填料,具有比表面积大,阻力小等特点,目前多用于石油蒸馏等行业,而用于中型氮肥行业的饱和热水塔作为增湿、降温的在国内极少。1规整填…     

0.7～1.9MPa下Mellapak 350Y填料传质性能的测定

引　言最近十几年以来 ,规整填料已广泛应用于新建的蒸馏塔以及老塔的改造中 .在常、减压操作中 ,与板式塔相比 ,在相同的分离效率下填料塔具有压降更低和处理能力更大的优点 .但在高压蒸馏操作中 ,液体的喷淋密度非常大 ,其范围在 2 0～ 10 0ｍ3·ｍ- 2 ·ｈ- 1,单位塔截面积上液体负荷的增加使得填料对液体的自分布能力减弱 ,液体易产生偏流、沟流等不均匀流动 .随着压力增大 ,充了气的液相、高的汽液相密度比值、高的汽液相黏度比值等因素都会使填料床层的持液量加大 ,空隙率降低 ,其结果使规整填料处理能力受到制约 .在高压条件下 ,规整…     

用新型填料技术改造脱烷烃塔

烷基苯生产装置中最大的脱烷烃塔是分离过程的关键设备。实验测试证明 ,在板式塔和填料塔中 ,当塔的流动参数小于 0 .0 3时 ,填料塔的分离效率明显高于板式塔 ;当塔的流动参数为 0 .0 2～ 0 .1时 ,塔板和散装填料具有相同的分离效率和处理能力 ,规整填料分离效率高出前者约 5 0 %。     

加压下规整填料塔内气液两相流返混的实验研究:气相返混系数

规整填料因具有生产能力大、分离效率高、压降低、操作弹性大、持液量低等诸多优点 ,目前已被广泛应用于精馏、吸收及萃取等多种化工单元操作中 .通常只在常压或减压条件下操作 ,而在高压或大液相负荷下 ,因流体物性的变化及流动状态的改变 ,使塔内产生严重的返混 ,塔效率显著降低 .因此 ,研究加压下规整填料塔内流体的流动状态具有重要意义 .对于加压下填料塔内气相返混的研究 ,中国台湾的ＴａｎＣｈｕｎｇ -Ｓｕｎｇ[1] 在低实验气速 (0 .0 0 2～ 0 .1ｃｍ·ｓ- 1)下做过初步的研究 ,其实验填料为散堆填料 .Ｋｕｒｔｚ[2 ] 在这方面的研究…     

加压下填料塔中液相轴向反混的研究

Liquid phase axial mixing was measured with the tracer technique in a packed column with inner diameter of 0.15m,in which the structured packing,Mellapak 350Y,was installed.Tap water as the liquid phase flowed down through the column and stagnant gas was at elevated pressure ranging from atmospheric to 2.0MPa.The model parameters of Bo andθwere estimated with the least square method in the time domain.As liquid flow rate was increased,the liquid axial mixing decreased.under our experimental conditions,the effect of pressure on Bo number on single liquid phase was negligible,and eddy diffusion was believed to be the primary cause of axial mixing in liquid phase.     

Liquid circulation and mixing in an inclined bubble column

Gas and liquid velocities were measured in an inclined rectangular column, at inclinations in the range 0?45° and superficial gas velocities of 0.002 to 0.12 cm/s. Liquid circulation was also characterized by measuring the time to mix a pulse of salt solution in the column. Inclining the column by up to 10° from the vertical induced a drastic change in behavior, from a bubble column with evenly distributed gas bubbles to a segregated system with rapid liquid circulation pumped by rising gas bubbles. The liquid velocities in the inclined column ranged from 10 to 50 times the superficial gas velocity. Further inclination of the column in the range of 10?45° had little effect on liquid velocity or mixing time. A compartmental model for the recirculating liquid flow matched the observed mixing times, but predicted oscillations in tracer concentration which were not detected in experiments.     

Liquid Holdup in a Pilot‐Scale Turbulent Contact Absorber – An Experimental and Comparative Study

Liquid holdup in a turbulent contact absorber was determined experimentally. Experiments were performed in a 44.7 cm diameter Perspex column. Hollow spherical high‐density polyethylene balls were used as packing. The effect of liquid and gas velocities, static bed height, diameter and density of packing on liquid holdup was investigated for the range of gas velocities greater than minimum fluidization velocities. Also, the effect of gas and liquid distributors on liquid holdup was studied. Correlations for liquid holdup were developed and compared with those in the literature. It was observed that liquid holdup increased with the increase in liquid velocity, packing density, and the decrease in static bed height. Liquid holdup also increased with gas velocity when the gas distributor section was included, while no effect was observed for the bed. Lack of information on the contribution of liquid and gas distributors seems to be the logical explanation for the wide variation in data reported in the literature.     

Mixing in a co‐current upflow bubble column reactors with and without internals

Liquid phase mixing is a phenomenon that results mainly due to convective and turbulent flow fields, which are generated by hydrodynamic interactions between the gas and liquid phases within a continuous co‐current upflow bubble column reactor. The extent of liquid phase mixing is usually quantified through the mixing time, or the axial dispersion coefficient. In the present work, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for mixing and RTD in a continuous bubble column (with and without internals) are performed by using OpenFOAM 2.3.1. The superficial gas velocities were 0.014, 0.088, and 0.221 m/s and the superficial liquid velocities were 0.005 and 0.014 m/s. The simulations have been performed for three different configurations of the bubble column, that is, (a) an open bubble column, (b) a column with one vertical central rod of 36 mm diameter, (c) a column with the same central rod and four vertical additional rods of 12 mm diameter. The effects of superficial gas and liquid velocities and column internals were investigated on liquid phase mixing and the axial dispersion coefficient. Comparisons have been made between the experimental measurements and the CFD simulations.

     

Influence of hydrodynamics on liquid mixing during Taylor flow in a microchannel

The miscible liquid‐liquid two phases based on Taylor flow in microchannels was investigated by high‐speed imaging techniques and Villermaux/Dushman reaction. The mixing based on Taylor flow was much better compared with that without introducing gas in microchannels, even the ideal micromixing performance could be obtained under optimized superficial gas and liquid velocities. In the mixing process based on Taylor flow, the superficial gas and liquid velocities affected the lengths and the velocities of Taylor bubble and liquid slug, and finally the micromixing performance. The formation process of Taylor flow in the inlets, the initial uniform distribution of reactants and the internal circulations in the liquid slug, and the thin liquid films all improved the mixing performance. Furthermore, a modified Peclet number that represented the relative importance of diffusion and convection in the mixing process was proposed for explaining and anticipating micromixing efficiency. © 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 58: 1660–1670, 2012     

Kinetic Correlation for the Hindered Diffusion of Proteins in a Porous Packing Column*

Abstract Hindered diffusion of proteins in a porous packing plays an important role in proteinchromatographic purification.The HETP method was adopted to analyze the influence of axialdispersion, film mass transfer and hindered diffosion in the porous packing employing a size-exclusionchromatography(SEC)process.The retention behavior with eight proteins of different relativemolecular mass was experimentally detected with a commercial SEC column.A correlation basedon the relative molecular mass of the proteins and the packing porosity was developed and used topredict the effective diffusion coefficient of a protein in the Porous packing.The predicted valuesof effective diffusion coefficient were very consistent with the experimental results with the averageerror of 8.6%.     

Liquid holdup in columns packed with structured packings: Countercurrent vs. cocurrent operation

An experimental study of the liquid holdup and the liquid holdup axial profile in a square section column with structured packing is carried out. Both cocurrent and countercurrent operations are examined. A conductivity technique to estimate liquid holdups is proposed and calibrated against values measured by the drainage method. Liquid holdups estimated by this technique follow the same trends as those previously found by other methods. Axial profiles of liquid holdup in the cocurrent and countercurrent operation are illustrated for liquid velocities below the loading point, and for solutions of different viscosity and foaming character. Variations between operation modes are larger for the foaming liquid than for the other liquid solutions employed.     

Bed Expansion and Particle Classification in Liquid Fluidized Beds with Structured Internals

The inclusion of a structured packing as internal in a liquid‐solid fluidized bed allows expansion of the liquid velocity operation range before elutriation, promoting the liquid solid contact and mixing. The bed expansion of liquid‐solid fluidized beds provided with structured packing as internals is examined, for solids denser than the liquid phase and within a wide range of operating conditions. A correlation to estimate the bed expansion in liquid‐solid fluidized beds using structured packing as internals is developed. In addition, the feasibility of employing structured packing as internals for favoring classification of different density particles is demonstrated by analyzing the mass elutriated from the column at different liquid velocities for single particles or binary mixtures.