Void fraction, bubble size and interfacial area measurements in co-current downflow bubble column reactor with microbubble dispersion
Abstract
Micro-bubbles dispersed in bubble column reactors have received great interest in recent years, due to their small size, stability, high gas-liquid interfacial area concentrations and longer residence times. The high gas-liquid interfacial area concentrations lead to high mass transfer rates compared to conventional bubble column reactors. In the present work, experiments have been performed in a down-flow bubble column reactor with micro-bubbles generated and dispersed by a novel mechanism to determine the gas-liquid interfacial area concentrations by measuring the void fraction and bubble size distributions. Gamma-ray densitometry has been employed to determine the axial and radial distributions of void fraction and a high speed camera equipped with a borescope is used to measure the axial and radial variations of bubble sizes. Also, the effects of superficial gas and liquid velocities on the two-phase flow characteristics have been investigated. Further, reconstruction techniques of the radial void fraction profiles from the gamma densitometry's chordal measurements are discussed and compared for a bubble column reactor with dispersed micro-bubbles. The results demonstrate that the new bubble generation technique offers high interfacial area concentrations (1,000 to 4,500 m2/m3) with sub-millimeter bubbles (500 to 900 µm) and high overall void fractions (10% – 60%) in comparisonmore »
- Authors:
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- City College of New York, NY (United States)
- Homi Bhabha National Inst., Mumbai (India)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- City College of New York, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USNRC
- Contributing Org.:
- LanzaTech
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1368176
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1398057
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000438; NRC-27-10-1120; NRC-HQ-12-G-38-0
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Chemical Engineering Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 168; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0009-2509
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; Bubble column reactor; Microbubbles; Gamma-ray densitometry; High speed video photography; Void fraction profiles
Citation Formats
Hernandez-Alvarado, Freddy, Kalaga, Dinesh V., Turney, Damon, Banerjee, Sanjoy, Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B., and Kawaji, Masahiro. Void fraction, bubble size and interfacial area measurements in co-current downflow bubble column reactor with microbubble dispersion. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2017.05.006.
Hernandez-Alvarado, Freddy, Kalaga, Dinesh V., Turney, Damon, Banerjee, Sanjoy, Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B., & Kawaji, Masahiro. Void fraction, bubble size and interfacial area measurements in co-current downflow bubble column reactor with microbubble dispersion. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2017.05.006
Hernandez-Alvarado, Freddy, Kalaga, Dinesh V., Turney, Damon, Banerjee, Sanjoy, Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B., and Kawaji, Masahiro. Sat .
"Void fraction, bubble size and interfacial area measurements in co-current downflow bubble column reactor with microbubble dispersion". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2017.05.006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1368176.
@article{osti_1368176,
title = {Void fraction, bubble size and interfacial area measurements in co-current downflow bubble column reactor with microbubble dispersion},
author = {Hernandez-Alvarado, Freddy and Kalaga, Dinesh V. and Turney, Damon and Banerjee, Sanjoy and Joshi, Jyeshtharaj B. and Kawaji, Masahiro},
abstractNote = {Micro-bubbles dispersed in bubble column reactors have received great interest in recent years, due to their small size, stability, high gas-liquid interfacial area concentrations and longer residence times. The high gas-liquid interfacial area concentrations lead to high mass transfer rates compared to conventional bubble column reactors. In the present work, experiments have been performed in a down-flow bubble column reactor with micro-bubbles generated and dispersed by a novel mechanism to determine the gas-liquid interfacial area concentrations by measuring the void fraction and bubble size distributions. Gamma-ray densitometry has been employed to determine the axial and radial distributions of void fraction and a high speed camera equipped with a borescope is used to measure the axial and radial variations of bubble sizes. Also, the effects of superficial gas and liquid velocities on the two-phase flow characteristics have been investigated. Further, reconstruction techniques of the radial void fraction profiles from the gamma densitometry's chordal measurements are discussed and compared for a bubble column reactor with dispersed micro-bubbles. The results demonstrate that the new bubble generation technique offers high interfacial area concentrations (1,000 to 4,500 m2/m3) with sub-millimeter bubbles (500 to 900 µm) and high overall void fractions (10% – 60%) in comparison with previous bubble column reactor designs. The void fraction data was analyzed using slip velocity model and empirical correlation has been proposed to predict the Sauter mean bubble diameter.},
doi = {10.1016/j.ces.2017.05.006},
journal = {Chemical Engineering Science},
number = C,
volume = 168,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Sat May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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