The application of drop size distribution and discrete drop mass transfer models to assess the performance of a rotating disc contactor
Journal Article
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· AIChE J.; (United States)
A method has been developed to calculate the overall mass transfer coefficient in an agitated liquid extraction column containing a wide range of drop sizes. The method applied the drop size distribution diagram to estimate the volume percentage of stagnant, circulating, and oscillating drops in the drop population. Individual mass transfer coefficients were then evaluated for the corresponding drop state, using the different single-drop mass transfer models, after which the overall coefficient K /sub cal/ was calculated as the fractional sum of the individual coefficients and their proportion in the drop population. These estimated mass transfer coefficients have been compared with results obtained from a large rotating disc extractor 0.45 m in diameter and 6.75 m high, extracting acetone between water and Clairsol (a parafinic hydrocarbon, principally decane). Good agreement was obtained in the majority of the experiments when the Rose-Kintner correlation was applied to evaluate the dispersed phase mass transfer coefficient of the oscillating drops. In all experiments agreement between the calculated and experimental overall mass transfer coefficients was improved by evaluating the concentration driving force by applying Simpson's rule, thereby introducing corrections for the variation in flowrate along the column and for possible backmixing.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Aston in Birmingham, Birmingham
- OSTI ID:
- 6503438
- Journal Information:
- AIChE J.; (United States), Journal Name: AIChE J.; (United States) Vol. 31:9; ISSN AICEA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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