Gas bubbles in micro capillaries - hydrodynamics and mass transfer

Hydrodynamics and mass transfer inthree-phase airlift reactors for activated Carbon and sludge filtration

A bioreactor refers to any manufactured or engineered device that supports a biologically active environment. These kinds of reactors are designed to treat wastewater treatment. Volumetric mass transfer coefficient and the effect of superficial gas velocity, as the most important operational factor on hydrodynamics, in three-phase airlift reactors are investigated in this study. The experiments...

Simulstion of Gas Diffusion in Capillaries and Porous Solids

Overall gas-liquid mass transfer from Taylor bubbles flowing upwards in a circular capillary

Overall liquid side volumetric mass transfer coefficient kLa was determined experimentally for cocurrent Taylor flow moving upwards in a glass tube of an internal diameter of 3mm. Experiments were performed for physical absorption of oxygen in 20% aqueous solution of ethanol. Shadowgraph technique was deployed for precise measurements of bubble lengths and velocities. Experimental values of vol...

Visualization of gas–liquid mass transfer and wake structure of rising bubbles using pH-sensitive PLIF

A planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) technique for visualizing gas–liquid mass transfer and wake structure of rising gas bubbles is described. The method uses an aqueous solution of the pH-sensitive dye Naphthofluorescein and CO2 as a tracer gas. It features a high spatial resolution and frame rates of up to 500 Hz, providing the ability to capture cinematographic image sequences. By stee...

Effect of hydrodynamics on mass transfer in a gas–liquid oscillatory baffled column

In this paper, we present an experimental study on mass transfer of oxygen into water in an oscillatory baffled column (OBC). The objective of this work is to establish the contribution of individual parameters, such as the size of bubbles and the gas holdup, to the overall volumetric mass transfer coefficient (kLa). Our results show that the gas holdup is the most important factor. The liquid-...