Nowadays, fluidized bed plays an important part in industry. The design of this kind of reactor requires knowing the interfacial area between two phases and this interfacial area leads to calculate the solid holdup in the bed. Consequently achieving interfacial area between gas and solid in the bed experimentally is so significant. On interfacial area measurement in fluidized bed with gas has b...

The hydrodynamics of an internal-loop airlift reactor was numerically and experimentally characterized. gas holdup, liquid velocity, shear rate, flow pattern volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient (kLa) were evaluated as a function the air velocity medium rheology. Tap water CMC solutions used Newtonian non-Newtonian fluids, respectively. standard  model employed for modeling turbulence, uns...

Fluidized beds are used to gasify materials such as coal or biomass in the production of producer gas. Modeling these reactors using computational fluid dynamics is advantageous when performing parametric studies for design and scale-up. While two-dimensional simulations are easier to perform than threedimensional simulations, they may not capture the proper physics. This paper compares twoand ...

Opaque Multiphase Reactors: Experimentation, Modeling and Troubleshooting — Multiphase reactors are widely used in petroleum, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and metallurgical industries as well as in materials processing and pollution abatement. Most reactors of interest in industrial practice (slurry bubble columns, gas-solid risers and fluidized beds, ebullated beds and stirred tanks...

In order to clarify the gas-water two-phase flow law in horizontal wells and study characteristics wells, firstly, a well is numerically simulated analyzed, pattern distribution under different inclination angles phase separation rates obtained. Secondly, series of production logging instruments including CAT instrument was used conduct experimental research on conditions, measured values each ...

Experiments and CFD-PBM simulation were performed in this study to investigate the effects of helically-finned tube (HFT) internals on gas-liquid flow a laboratory-scale bubble column. Hydrodynamic parameters, including gas holdup, size field as well turbulence properties, compared for an empty column other two columns with bare-tube (BT) or HFT internals. We found that bare rods promote stabil...

The performance of airlift bioreactors are closely related with their geometry, especially the gas-liquid separator design. In this study, the influence of the gas-liquid separator geometry on oxygen transfer and gas hold-up was evaluated in 10-L concentric-tube airlift bioreactor operating with distilled water and xanthan gum solution. The specific airflow rate (ɸAIR) exhibited the higher effe...