伞板型布膜器对降膜蒸发性能的影响

引　言降膜蒸发器是一种高效、节能的蒸发设备 ,具有传热系数高、温差损失小、汽化表面大、物料停留时间短等特点 ,适于热敏性物料蒸发 ,易于实现多效操作 ,广泛应用于化工、轻工、食品加工、海水淡化等领域[1].由降膜蒸发器的工作原理可知 ,降膜蒸发器能否高效运行主要取决于料液在换热管间的均布及其在换热管内壁成膜的均匀程度 .在降膜蒸发器换热管上端安装布膜器是一种有效的方法 .溢流型布膜器结构简单 ,但加工、安装精度要求高 ;目前常用的插件型布膜器成膜较好 ,但结构复杂 ,安装和检修都不方便 ,而且阻力相对来说比较大 .针对这一情…     

Simulation of Orifice Flow Influenced by Lateral Flow in a Trough‐Type Liquid Distributor

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is performed to investigate the influence of lateral flow on the orifice flow in a trough‐type liquid distributor. The discharge coefficients from the simulation are in good agreement with the experimental values, indicating that the CFD simulation is accurate in describing the outflow through orifices. The lateral flow near an orifice can change the velocity and pressure distributions of flow regions in front of this orifice, causing a decrease in the discharge coefficient. This phenomenon is supported by the theory of flow past a blunt body. An important implication derived from this finding is that the influence of lateral flow should be minimized in the design of a trough‐type liquid distributor, because the decrease in the discharge coefficient leads to non‐uniform outflow. The structure of a trough‐type liquid distributor is optimized to improve the liquid distribution performance by reducing the influence of lateral flow.     

竖管降膜蒸发器的布料装置

对应用于竖管降膜蒸发器中的几种液体分布器的流量计算和适用范围进行了讨论,指出多层淋降板式分布器适用于大型降膜蒸发器。     

脂肪酸甲酯降膜蒸发器沸腾传热性能

利用传统的多管排列式蒸发器对高黏度、易结垢的混合物进行蒸发,容易造成布液器堵塞,且结垢后的传热管难以清理。因此根据物料特性,本文设计了一种新型的降膜蒸发器,采用大降液孔加倾斜环板进行布膜,利用内径较大的锥筒作为传热壁面,并以粗甲酯作为试验工质对蒸发器的降膜蒸发传热系数随蒸发器筒体半锥度角、液膜流动雷诺数以及输入热通量之间的关系进行了试验研究。结果表明：该型蒸发器对于上述工质具有较好的适用性,蒸发系统能够在保持较高的传热系数的条件下,连续运行而不发生堵塞;蒸发器筒体锥度角有效地强化了降膜蒸发传热过程,而较大的热通量及进料流量在一定程度上却不利于蒸发传热。最后建立了降膜蒸发传热系数随蒸发器筒体半锥角和流动准数之间的经验关联式。     

Design methodology for barrier‐based two phase flow distributor

The barrier‐based distributor is a multiphase flow distributor for a multichannel microreactor which assures flow uniformity and prevents channeling between the two phases. For N number of reaction channels, the barrier‐based distributor consists of a gas manifold, a liquid manifold, N barrier channels for the gas, N barrier channels for the liquid, and N mixers for mixing the phases before the reaction channels. The flow distribution is studied numerically using a method based on the hydraulic resistive networks (RN). The single phase hydraulic RN model (Commenge et al., 2002;48:345–358) is extended for two phases gas‐liquid Taylor flow. For Re_GL <30, the accuracy for the model was above 90%. The developed‐model was used to study the effects of fabrication tolerance and barrier channel dimensions. A design methodology has been proposed as an algorithm to determine the required hydraulic resistance in the barrier channels and their dimensions. This methodology is demonstrated using a numerical example. © 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2012     

真空精馏高沸点热敏性物质中降膜再沸器的优化设计

对降膜再沸器进行初步设计并校核结果,核算得溢流强度无法满足分布器均匀分布的要求。产气量不变的前提下减小气化率,增大塔釜进再沸器循环量,反复调整进料条件,并对再沸器进行优化设计,溢流强度和平均液膜厚度的核算结果可满足分布器均匀分布及换热管内液相成膜的要求。设计了再沸器分布装置,使其更好地达到降膜蒸发的目的。     

Statistical analysis of the phase holdup characteristics of a gas–liquid–solid fluidized bed

Experiments have been carried out to study the individual phase holdup characteristics in a cocurrent three‐phase fluidized bed. An antenna type modified air sparger has been used in the gas–liquid distributor section, for uniform mixing of the fluids with the gas moving as fine bubbles to the fluidizing section. This arrangement also reduces the pressure drop encountered through a conventional distributor used for the purpose. To overcome the non‐uniformity of flow through the column (i.e., the central region), a distributor plate with 20% open area has been fabricated with concentric circular punched holes of increased diameter from centre to the wall. Model equations have been developed by factorial design analysis for predicting various individual phase holdups.     

Studies on Liquid—Gas and Three‐Phase Fluidized Beds with Pulsating Air Flows

The effects of air‐flow pulsation and water and air flowrates on the hydrodynamics of liquid—gas and three‐phase fluidized beds containing 3‐mm glass beads have been studied in a 90‐mm i.d. column. Under steady‐flow conditions, both types of bed contained a relatively large number of small bubbles. With a pulsing air flow, however, a smaller number of much larger bubbles or slugs were formed. This was attributed to different mechanisms of bubble formation at the distributor. Variations in phase holdup were explained in terms of the effects of the operating parameters on the bubble characteristics.     

Study of Hydrodynamics,Mixing and Gas‐Liquid Mass Transfer in a Split‐Rectangular Airlift Reactor

Global hydrodynamic characteristics, liquid mixing and gas‐liquid mass transfer for a 63 L split‐rectangular airlift reactor were studied. Correlations for gas holdup and overall liquid circulation velocity were derived for the air‐water system as a function of the specific power input; these were compared to data and correlations for reactor volumes between 4.7 L and 4600 L. A partial recirculation of small bubbles in the riser was observed when U_gr > 0.03 m/s, which was attributed to the use of a single‐orifice nozzle as the gas phase distributor. The dimensionless mixing time and the overall axial dispersion coefficient were nearly constant for the range of gas flow rates studied. However, values of K_L/d_B were greater than those reported in previous studies and this is caused by the partial recirculation of the gas phase in the riser. While scale effects remain slight, the use of a gas distributor favouring this partial recirculation seems adequate for mass transfer in split‐rectangular airlift reactors.     

Experimental investigation of gas‐liquid flow in monolith channels using monofiber optical probes

Two‐phase hydrodynamics has been experimentally investigated using optical fibre probes in individual channels of a laboratory scale monolith bed. Experimental investigations were carried out to validate the optical probe measurements in a single capillary. Optical probes were positioned at selected single channels of a monolith block, and the signals were processed to assess the local hydrodynamics under cocurrent gas‐liquid downflow configuration, using air and water as fluids. The investigations were performed for three different distributors, viz. single pipe, multipipe, and packed bed distributor configurations. The different distributor configurations were evaluated on the basis of void fraction and bubble frequency for a wide range of flow velocities. The specific novelty aspect of this study comes from the fact that we have undertaken channel scale investigations in monoliths under conditions where we have also reported the global gas‐liquid distribution. Thus, one can readily correlate the bed‐scale hydrodynamics with the local channel‐scale hydrodynamics. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 63: 327–336, 2017     

Hydrodynamic Behavior and Residence Time Distribution of Industrial‐Scale Bale Packings

The hydrodynamic behavior of bale packing was tested in a catalytic distillation column. Models and empirical equations for predicting pressure drop and dynamic liquid holdup were proposed and compared with experimental results. The examination of residence time distribution (RTD) relied on the pulse method and a conductivity meter which deduced the axial Péclet number, axial dispersion coefficient, and dynamic liquid holdup. The relations of dynamic liquid holdup obtained from gravimetric draining experiments and RTD studies were discussed with static and total liquid holdup. Potential impacts of the liquid distributor and conductivity cell were also assessed. The results prove that models and empirical equations fit well and are reliable in design and scale‐up.     

Defluidized zones in liquid–solid fluidized beds

Defluidized zones often appear on the distributor plates of liquid–solid fluidized beds. They can lead to hot spots, the formation of undesirable side products or the degradation of products or reactants. In some cases, a solid residue forms and plugs the distributor.Two different techniques were developed to detect defluidized zones. The first technique uses a specially designed collision probe to monitor local particle motion. The second technique is aimed at the on-line detection of defluidized zones in industrial bioreactors. It uses local bed conductivity fluctuations.Defluidized zones were measured in beds of 3 or 5 mm diameter glass beads fluidized by an aqueous saline solution. Special experiments established the importance of horizontal liquid flow and distributor plate roughness on the formation of defluidized zones.A model describes how a defluidized zone can be eliminated. It considers that a defluidized zone is broken by the drag force on its particles of downward and sideways liquid flow. This liquid flow is induced by suction from the liquid jets issuing from the distributor holes. The resulting drag force is resisted by friction between particles or between particles and the distributor surface.     

A computational fluid dynamics-based method to investigate and optimize novel liquid distributor

Liquid distributors have an important influence on packed towers' hydrodynamics and mass transfer performances. This work has designed a narrow-trough liquid distributor with stepped baffle plates to regulate liquid flow. The liquid mainstream is diverted layer by stepped baffles to realize the uniform distribution of liquid. The relationship between liquid flow and the baffle plates arrangement is studied by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Furthermore, we put forward a CFD-based structural optimization scheme to arrange baffle plates in an arc shape, which leads to a uniform and stable flow of each distribution orifice in the range of liquid spray density of 5–120 m³·(m²·h)⁻¹. The simulation results agree with experiments, which proved that the novel liquid distributor has excellent performance. Compared with the traditional trough liquid distributor, the novel liquid distributor can provide more liquid drip points, more gas-phase channels, higher operating flexibility, and take up less space.     

Multiphase hydrodynamics and distribution characteristics in a monolith bed measured by optical fiber probe

The optical fiber probe has been for the first time applied to investigate the hydrodynamics and gas‐phase distribution at high gas/liquid ratios in a two‐phase flow monolith bed with 0.048 m diameter and 400 cpsi. Local hydrodynamic parameters including gas holdup, bubble frequency, bubble velocity, and bubble length in single channels were measured by 16 inserted single‐point optical fiber probes within the bed under a nozzle as the liquid distributor. The following findings are reported. (1) The optical fiber probe can be used as an efficient and convenient technique for measuring local hydrodynamic parameters inside the channels of a monolith bed; (2) within the range of high gas/liquid ratios under which experiments were conducted, churn flow regime occurred. In this regime, the monolith bed radial distribution of gas holdup, bubble frequency, bubble velocity, and bubble length is nonuniform in nature. © 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J 60: 740–748, 2014     

整体式床层中液体分布与气-液传质的关系

With a particular focus on the connection between liquid flow distribution and gas-liquid mass transfer in monolithic beds in the Taylor flow regime, hydrodynamic and gas-liquid mass transfer experiments were carried out in a column with a monolithic bed of cell density of 50 cpsi with two different distributors (nozzle and packed bed distributors). Liquid saturation in individual channels was measured by using self-made micro-conductivity probes. A mal-distribution factor was used to evaluate uniform degree of phase distribution in monoliths. Overall bed pressure drop and mass transfer coefficients were measured. For liquid flow distribution and gas-liquid mass transfer, it is found that the superficial liquid velocity is a crucial factor and the packed bed distributor is better than the nozzle distributor. A semi-theoretical analysis using single channel models shows that the packed bed distributor always yields shorter and uniformly distributed liquid slugs compared to the nozzle distributor, which in turn ensures a better mass transfer performance. A bed scale mass transfer model is proposed by employing the single channel models in individual channels and incorporating effects of non-uniform liquid distribution along the bed cross-section. The model predicts the overall gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient with a relative error within ±30%.     

外环状弹性壁布膜器及超薄降膜厚度

研发了竖直管外环状弹性壁降膜分布器,可以产生微米量级厚度均匀的超薄降膜流动。由弹性薄壁轴对称变形协调性决定,该布膜器具有均匀性和稳定性内在机理。理论分析导出了初始膜厚及布膜流量与布膜器内液柱高度的线性关系,并通过布膜器操作参数及降膜流量等实验数据进行了验证。实验结果表明,该布膜器对降膜管壁的润湿性能已经达到由固液界面性质决定的最小润湿流率。     

Hydrodynamics and Transport Processes during Centrifugal Short‐Path Distillation

To simulate the centrifugal short‐path distillation process, both two phases and interfacial transport are taken into account simultaneously for the first time. A new computational fluid dynamics model based on the volume‐of‐fluid and species transport methods is built up to analyze the detailed flow and transfer characteristics. A binary system with dibutyl phthalate‐dibutyl sebacate (DBP‐DBS) is used as an example for the investigation with both numerical and experimental methods. The residence time and the effects of operating parameters such as evaporator temperature and feed flow rate are explored comparatively. The simulation result for the liquid‐film thickness shows a satisfactory agreement with literature data. On the basis of the simulation results, we may also obtain detailed characteristics of the heat and mass transfer such as gradients in temperature and concentration and the liquid overall mass transfer coefficient.     

Formation of Furan Fatty Alkyl Esters from their Bis‐Epoxide Fatty Esters

Reactions of epoxidized alkyl soyate with four different alcohols: ethanol, isopropyl alcohol, 2‐ethylhexanol, benzyl alcohol, in the presence of Brønsted acid catalyst, were investigated. Products, not reported in prior studies of similar reactions, were found. These were furan fatty acid alkyl esters (FFE, mixture of alkyl 8‐(5‐hexyl‐2‐furyl) octanoate and alkyl 9‐(5‐pentyl‐2‐furyl)nonanoate) which were unambiguously identified by means of GC–MS and two‐dimensional NMR. Evidence suggests that the FFE are formed by an acid‐catalyzed rearrangement of the epoxidized linoleates. The FFE were formed in presence of all four alcohols tested and in the presence of either sulfuric acid or Amberlyst 15 catalyst. Yields of up to 13 %, as quantified by GC and NMR spectroscopies, were observed.     

Design Considerations for Plate and Frame Ultrafiltration Modules by Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis

Pressure and flow maldistributions were studied in a full‐scale industrial plate and frame ultrafiltration module, operating in a Z flow pattern, for the recovery of used motor oils. Solutions were obtained using (1) a three‐dimensional solution of the Navier‐Stokes equation using computational fluid dynamics and (2) Bernoulli's equation and a momentum balance in one dimension. Fluid decelerations and accelerations generated pressure increases and decreases in the distributor and collector, respectively, biasing the flow distribution to the last channel. Several modifications to the original design were evaluated; the most effective was larger distributor and collector diameters, which greatly improved the uniformity of the flow distribution and transmembrane pressure, and reduced the overall pressure drop in a bank. A variable diameter distributor and collector module was designed using the 1‐D model. Flow distribution was significantly improved but also yielded an undesirable overall higher pressure drop and a pressure maldistribution in the bank. The maldistribution of the main inlet manifold to the distributors in the first bank was strongly dependent on the module design. The flow distribution across the width of a channel became uniform within a short distance, essentially eliminating the need to consider this design aspect any further. Flows at the bank outlets, and hence inlets of the following bank, showed uniform lateral distribution in all cases, suggesting that future modelling work can be limited to a fraction of the module width, based on symmetry, in order to gain computational efficiency.     

多碟式液体分布器在大型填料塔中的应用

碟式液体分布器由进液总管、进液支管、分液管、限流孔板、分液碟、落液管组成。具有分液均匀、流量调节范围宽、抗堵塞、重量轻、安装维修方便等优点,特别适用于大型填料塔,可极大地降低甚至可消除液体分布的放大效应。详细介绍了碟式液体分布器在乙烯急冷塔、烟气脱硫塔、SO3热回收塔中的具体应用。