Effects of Orifice Orientation and Gas-Liquid Flow Pattern on Initial Bubble Size |
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Authors: | LIU Changjun LIANG Bin TANG Shengwei MIN Enze |
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Affiliation: | 1.Multi-phases Mass Transfer and Reaction Engineering Laboratory, College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China;2.SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, Beijing 100083, China |
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Abstract: | In many gas-liquid processes, the initial bubble size is determined by a series of operation parameters along with the sparger design and gas-liquid flow pattern. Bubble formation models for variant gas-liquid flow patterns have been developed based on force balance. The effects of the orientation of gas-liquid flow, gas velocity, liquid velocity and orifice diameter on the initial bubble size have been clarified. In ambient air-water system, the suitable gas-liquid flow pattern is important to obtain smaller bubbles under the low velocity liquid cross-flow conditions with stainless steel spargers. Among the four types of gas-liquid flow patterns discussed, the horizontal orifice in a vertically upward liquid flow produces the smallest initial bubbles. However the orientation effects of gas and liquid flow are found to be insignificant when liquid velocity is higher than 3.2 m·s-1 or the orifice diameter is small enough. |
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Keywords: | bubble column bubble design mathematical modeling multiphase flow sparger |
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