Summary Report on Liquid-Liquid Contactor Scoping Experiments and Validation Test Case Definition

Technical Report · Thu May 31 04:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1059653· OSTI ID:1059653

Wardle, Kent E. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

This report presents an overview of a set of wide ranging experiments that was conducted during the first half of FY12 using the capability of the Contactor Electrical Resistance Tomography (CERT) Facility. This facility includes the capability for multiphase measurements of flow in liquid–liquid contactors using ERT as well as high-speed imaging with the current test focus on an instrumented engineering-scale annular centrifugal contactor having a 5 inch rotor (CINC-V5). The purpose of the efforts during this current FY are to explore a range of flow conditions for multiphase operation to gain broad insight into observable trends and quantities after which detailed measurements will be made for specific controlled test conditions to provide data for validation of advanced computational fluid dynamics models which are being developed under a separate work package (FT-12AN030901). In addition to the Redlake X5plus camera, a Redlake MotionPro Y7 camera was also available on loan from another research group at Argonne. The Y7 is capable of grayscale imaging at 7500 frames per second at full resolution (1920×1080) and has excellent light sensitivity (can be used for time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV)). This camera was used for the bubble imaging described in Section 2.3. Imaging at the bubble scale was done using a Infinity K1 CentriMax lens with an MX-4 objective attachment.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1059653
• Report Number(s): ANL-LTR-CERT--12-001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: ENGLISH

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