Numerical simulation and experimental study of the characteristics of packing feature size on liquid flow in a rotating packed bed

Rotating packed bed has high efficiency of gas–liquid mass transfer. So it is significant to investigate fluid motion in rotating packed bed. Numerical simulations of the effects of packing feature size on liquid flow characteristics in a rotating packed bed are reported in this paper. The particle image velocimetry is compared with the numerical simulations to validate the turbulent model. Results show that the liquid exists in the packing zone in the form of droplet and liquid line, and the cavity is droplet. When the radial thickness of the packing is less than 0.101 m, liquid line and droplets appear in the cavity. When rotational speed and radial thickness of the packing increase, the average diameter of the droplets becomes smaller, and the droplet size distribution becomes uniform. As the initial velocity of the liquid increases, the average droplet diameter increases and the uniformity of particle size distribution become worse. The droplet velocity increases with the radial thickness of the packing increasing, and gradually decreases when it reaches the cavity region. The effect of packing thickness is most substantial through linear fitting. The predicted and simulated values are within ±15%. The cumulative volume distribution curves of the experimental and simulated droplets are consistent with the R-R distribution.     

旋转填充床反应器流体流动可视化研究进展

旋转填充床反应器是一种典型过程强化装置,对化工过程中的传质与混合过程具有较好的强化作用。流体流动作为旋转填充床反应器中最为基础的性质,对研究、优化旋转填充床反应器的结构和性能至关重要。光学成像技术与数值模拟作为研究旋转填充床反应器中流体力学性质的重要手段在近年来得到了飞速发展。对近三十年来,旋转填充床反应器可视化研究进行了综述,从早期光学成像开始,在此基础上引入早期计算流体力学模拟,直至现在高速数码摄像可视化和基于真实结构的模拟。对旋转填充床的可视化观测从填料表面逐渐向填料内部发展,对其数值模拟从初步的数学模型发展到包含详细填料几何结构、详细流体特性的流动模拟。现有研究已对填料区、空腔区中的流体流动有了较为详细的描述。     

上流式反应器气液相间传质特性的实验研究

上流式反应器设置在固定床渣油加氢反应器前有利于提高渣油原料适用性,延长装置运行时间。实验研究了上流式反应器气液相间传质,采用五齿柱形氧化铝催化剂模拟工业催化剂颗粒,水溶液模拟渣油,空气模拟氢气,采用无氧水物理吸收和亚硫酸钠化学吸收的方法,测定了在高气液比的条件下上流式反应器床层气液相间传质特性实验。考察了表观气速、表观液速、填料粒径、内构件、催化剂级配和床层高径比对液相体积传质系数和气液相界比表面积的影响规律。实验数据表明,液相体积传质系数随着气、液速的增大而增大;随填料颗粒增大而减小;在床层内安装合适的内构件或增大反应器高径比,能够促进气液相间传质。基于实验数据拟合了适合上流式反应器液相体积传质系数和气液相界比表面积的经验关联式,拟合误差最大分别为12%和24%;表明所建气液相间传质的经验关联式能更好地预测上流式反应器中的气液相间传质特性。     

烟气脱硫Bunsen反应器设计

Bunsen反应器是一种有效的二氧化硫脱除的先进设备。本文针对实验室小试中Bunsen反应器的设计工作提出了反应器适用类型及其主要工作参数,讨论了填料塔塔径、传质单元数、传质系数等操作参数的计算方法,依据实际运行试验获得的烟气脱硫率结果计算了设计偏差值,为采用填料塔类Bunsen反应器实现烟气脱硫提供了理论依据。     

Effect of transfer on droplet size in liquid-liquid dispersions

Mean droplet diameter of the dispersed phase in pulsed plate extraction columns was measured for binary and ternary systems. A change in the droplet size in the presence of solute, dependent on such factors as the direction of mass transfer, droplet size in the binary system, radio of diffusion coefficients, viscosity of the continuous phase, interfacial tension and driving force for extraction was observed. Two new empirical correlations of mean droplet sizes in mass transfer conditions are proposed. These correlations have been successfully applied to other extraction columns.     

A study of mass transfer in a packed bed reactor by electrochemical technique

Electrochemical method was used to study the mass transfer between the solid particles and the flowing liquid in a packed bed. From the limiting current of a single active particle immersed in inactive glass particles of the same size and shape, the mass transfer coefficients can be derived.Various size and shape of packing particles were used. The experimental results indicate that smaller packing particles have higher mass transfer coefficient. In the meantime, spherical packing particles have higher mass transfer coefficients than cylindrical particles of the same equivalent diameter. However they approach each other when liquid flowing velocity is increased.The wall-effect of the reactor on mass transfer was also observed.     

Hydrodynamik und Stofftransport in einem Perlschnurreaktor für Gas/Flüssig/Fest‐Reaktionen

In this work, a pellet string reactor was characterized with respect to hydrodynamics and mass transfer. The catalyst packing consists of a cylindrical channel with a diameter of 1.41 mm, which was filled with spherical catalyst particles, having an outer diameter of 0.8 mm. Under reaction conditions (liquid phase hydrogenation of α‐methylstyrene) overall (gas‐liquid‐solid) volumetric mass transfer coefficients for hydrogen between 0.8 and 5.5 s^–1 were computed. Due to high mass transfer rates and simple reactor geometry, pellet string reactors can be applied in industry as highly efficient reaction units.     

Mass transfer in sparged and stirred reactors: influence of carbon particles and electrolyte

Mass transfer in multiphase systems is one of the most studied topics in chemical engineering. However, in three-phase systems containing small particles, the mechanisms playing a role in the increased rate of mass transfer compared to two-phase systems without particles, are still not clear. Therefore, mass transfer measurements were carried out in a 2D slurry bubble column reactor , a stirred tank reactor with a flat gas-liquid interface, and in a stirred tank reactor with a gas inducing impeller. The rate of mass transfer in these reactors was investigated with various concentrations of active carbon particles (average particle size of ), with electrolyte (sodium gluconate), and with combinations of these. In the bubble column, high-speed video recordings were captured from which the bubble size distribution and the specific bubble area were determined. In this way, the specific mass transfer area a_gl was determined separately from the mass transfer coefficient k_l. Mechanisms proposed in literature to describe mass transfer and mass transfer enhancement in stirred tank reactors and bubble columns are compared. It is shown that the increased rates of mass transfer in the 2D bubble column and in the stirred tank reactor with the gas inducing impeller are completely caused by an increased gas-liquid interfacial area upon addition of carbon particles and electrolyte. It is suggested that an increased level of turbulence at the gas-liquid interface caused by carbon particles accounts for a smaller effective boundary layer thickness and an enhancement of mass transfer in the flat gas-liquid surface stirred tank reactor. However, for the carbon particles used in this study, it is rather unlikely that mass transfer enhancement takes place due to the well-known shuttle or grazing effect.     

超重力精馏过程传热传质机理研究

以波纹丝网为填料,以立式逆流超重力装置为主要设备,应用热量传递与质量传递理论,建立了超重力精馏装置内气、液温度分布的数学模型;以转子内半径29 mm、外半径63 mm、轴向高度32mm、内置直径1.6 mm、空隙率0.85、比表面积1 750 m2/m3的波纹丝网为填料的超重力装置为精馏设备,以乙醇-水为物系,在常压、室温进料、原料流量20 L/h、原料乙醇质量分数20%、转速800 r/min-1、回流比为1的操作条件下,对模型进行了检验。精馏段气相温度的实测值与模型计算值的偏差为1.41%,提馏段外半径的实测值与模型计算值的偏差为3.87%。     

Mass transfer with chemical reaction in liquid foam reactors

Mass transfer studies were conducted in a stable liquid foam reactor under various operating conditions to evaluate gas holdup, effective interfacial area, liquid-phase mass transfer coefficient and a modified interfacial mass transfer coefficient to include the surface-active agents employed. Gas holdup and effective interfacial area were evaluated experimentally. The interfacial mass transfer coefficient was evaluated semitheoretically, by considering the interfacial region as a separate phase and using the experimental data developed for mass transfer accompanied by a fast first-order chemical reaction. The liquid-phase mass transfer coefficient was also evaluated semitheoretically, using Danckwert's theory for the liquid phase and the experimental data on mass transfer accompanied by a slow pseudofirst-order chemical reaction. An experimental unit was set up to provide a stable flowing foam column, simulating the foam reactor. Mass transfer rates were studied for superfacial gas velocities in the range from 1.5 × 10⁻² m/s to 5 × 10⁻² m/s, giving gas residence times in the range from 20 to 55 seconds. A cationic and nonionic surface-active agent and three different wire mesh sizes, giving bubble size distributions in the range from 2.2 to 5.4 mm Sauter mean diameters, were employed. It is observed that gas holdup is insensitive to the type of surface-active agent; it is however, dependent on wire mesh size and gas velocity. The bubble diameter and, hence, the interfacial area are found to be insensitive to gas velocity in the range studied; they are, however, strong functions of wire mesh size. The liquid-phase mass transfer coefficient increases with increase in gas velocity. The surface-active agent introduces additional resistance to mass transfer in both reaction cases, this being the controlling one in the case of the fast reaction. A comparison with conventional packed bed contactors indicates the mass transfer rates to be about 8 times lower for the foam reactor, for the fast reaction case; for slow reactions, the foam reactor has mass transfer rates approximately 2-4 times higher than those for conventional packed bed contactors.     

HD低温蒸发系统中填料蒸发器传质传热的分析

通过研究系统中填料蒸发器的蒸发传质传热过程以及两相流动特性，采用计算流体力学（computational fluid dynamics，CFD）中离散相与连续相耦合的方法来模拟规整填料内部通道的蒸发传质传热过程，实现了填料蒸发器中两相传质传热的过程以及液滴流动的可视化，为研究气液两相在规整填料内的流动提供了一种模拟方法。通过与实验结果的比较，最终选用RNG k-ε湍流模型来分析规整填料内部气液两相传质传热以及流动情况。数值模拟研究了规整填料板间距对填料内部气液两相传质传热以及液滴运动影响，发现随着板间距的增大，填料内部压力降逐渐降低，出口空气中水蒸气的含量不断减小，液滴蒸发速率降低，液滴进出口质量差减小，气相出口温度逐渐降低，蒸发传质传热效率降低。随着气速的增大，出口空气中水蒸气的含量不断减小，液滴蒸发速率增加，气相出口温度降低，气液两相传质传热效率降低。     

转盘式萃取塔有效扩散系数的预测及其在设计中的应用

A rotating disc column (RDC) with inner diameter 68 mm and 28 compartments is used in this study. Parameters including Sauter mean diameter, hold-up and mass transfer coefficient are measured experimentally under different operating conditions. The correlations in literature for molecular diffusion and enhancement factor equation including eddy diffusion, circulation and oscillation of drops are evaluated. A new equation for the effective diffusion coefficient as a function of Reynolds number is proposed. The calculated values of mass transfer co-efficient and column height from the previous equations and present equation are compared with the experimental data. The results from the present equation are in very good agreement with the experimental results, which may be used in designing RDC columns.     

滴流床反应器的非定态操作

采用蒽醌加氢反应为探针,研究了脉冲流操作、周期性填充和周期性操作3种非定态操作方式对TBR反应器性能的影响.结果表明,在脉冲流区操作TBR的催化剂质量空时收率比滴流区操作提高50%以上,表观动力学研究证实脉冲流区操作TBR蒽醌加氢反应的表观活化能比滴流区操作更接近本征活化能;催化剂与惰性颗粒的交替填充周期性地强化了气液相间传质速率,提高催化剂质量空时收率40%以上;反应器的周期性操作,同时强化气液和液固相间传质速率,改善反应器内的流体力学状况,从而提高反应的空时收率和选择性10%以上.     

Liquid-liquid two phase flow of millichannel with a dynamic mixer

A novel millimeter-sized reactor, named millireactor in the present study, is proposed for oil droplet formation aiming at heterogeneous enzymatic hydrolysis. The reactor consists of a circular ditch with a small stirring bar and a straight channel. To obtain optimal operation conditions and a reactor configuration for droplet formation, the stable droplet formation region was explored by mapping analysis, and the relationship between the specific interfacial area of droplets and other physical parameters were investigated by dimension analysis. It was found that the shear stress parameter and interfacial tension played important roles in the droplet formation. Considering parameters such as the length of the stirring bar, rotating speed, diameter of the stirring section, gap width, interfacial tension, viscosity and residence time in the stirring section, a correlation equation including three dimensionless numbers was obtained. The optimal design guide for obtaining high specific area of oil droplets involves increasing the volume of the stirring section and reducing the gap width as narrow as possible. The reactor performance was evaluated comparing the amount of fatty acid produced in the millireactor versus the batch reactor. The productivity of the millireactor was higher than the batch reactor for the first 10 min.     

Droplet characteristics in the multi-staged high speed disperser with single inlet

Droplet characteristics in the cavity zone of a multi-staged high speed disperser with single inlet were studied in this paper. The influences of both the operating and structural parameters on the mean droplet diameter, size distribution and liquid flux distribution were quantitatively analyzed. The result showed that the mean droplet diameter decreased with the increase of rotational speed and the number of rotors;whilst there is little influence on the inlet flow rate. In the experimental range, the minimum value of mean droplet diameter is 0.57 mm, 0.48 mm, 0.41 mm in the two-staged, three-staged and four-staged rotors, respectively. The Rosin–Rammler(R–R) distribution could describe the droplet size distribution appropriately, and it became uniform with the increase of rotational speed and the number of rotor, while the inlet flow rate had little effect on the droplet size distribution. The liquid flux distribution curves were always unimodal. With the increase of rotational speed, the location of maximum liquid flux ratio moved from zone 3 to zone 4 and this value decreased from 22.1% to 18.1%. Using Coefficient of Variation(CV) to indicate the uniformity of liquid flux distribution, it was found that the CV decreases from 47.5% to 22.7%when the number of rotor increased from 2 to 4.     

考虑结壳现象的液滴干燥过程数值模拟

为更清楚地了解液滴的干燥过程,文中综合考虑溶剂扩散系数与溶液质量分数,溶液质量分数与液滴表面蒸汽压和滴径变化与传热传质之间的耦合关系,建立了包含液滴内部径向热传导方程,液滴内部的传质方程及液滴质量变化方程的液滴蒸发的完整模型。用所建模型对不同操作工况下液滴的挥发过程进行了模拟,描述了干燥过程中液滴质量损失,滴径的变化及液滴表面到中心的溶液组分变化,并对影响液滴干燥速度的重要因素进行了分析。模型模拟结果跟实验结论比较一致。     

Prediction for particle removal efficiency of a reverse jet scrubber

Numerical computation was conducted to predict the collection performance of a reverse jet scrubber for polydisperse particles. The particle size distribution of polydisperse particles was represented by a lognormal function, and the continuous evolution of the particle size distribution in a reverse jet scrubber is taken into account with the first three moment equations. Numerical results were compared with the analytic results using average relative velocity in all zones and experimental results.

In a reverse jet scrubber, the impaction is the main particle collection mechanism because of high relative velocity and short collection time. The particle collection by impaction increases with an increase in particle size, and geometric mean diameter and geometric standard deviation decrease as time goes on. High droplet velocity and gas velocity increase the particle collection efficiency, and the small droplet size also increases the collection efficiency because smaller droplet size provides broader surface area. The packing density is a factor affecting particle collection efficiency in a scrubbing process. The dense packing density also provides large surface area and leads to high collection efficiency.     

组合表面调控液滴特性强化蒸汽冷凝传热

制备了具有不同疏水区宽度和面积分率的疏水-亲水间隔规则排列的组合表面。观测常压蒸汽在组合表面上冷凝时疏水区液滴的特性(液滴移除方式和最大液滴半径),利用格子Boltzmann方法模拟组合表面上凝液的运动。考察疏水区、亲水区宽度和表面过冷度对组合表面强化蒸汽冷凝传热的影响。利用滴状-膜状组合传热模型分析组合表面蒸汽冷凝传热性能的影响因素,并与实验结果比较。发现疏水区液滴自发地向亲水区定向迁移,精细设计的组合表面可以实现蒸汽滴状冷凝传热的强化,实验中强化因子可达1.20。疏水区宽度约为0.55 mm时组合表面的传热性能最大。表面过冷度越大,组合表面强化传热的效果越差,模型分析与实验结果吻合良好。     

气-液-液萃取传质效率的研究

在液-液萃取过程中,提高分散相的表面更新速率可有效提高萃取的传质效率.研究发现,在萃取过程中使用气体搅拌可以增加液液之间的接触面积,促进液相内的湍动和循环.据此,本文在气-液-液萃取条件下对不同填料的传质性能进行了测定.实验表明,通入气相后分散相液滴呈现稳定的“油包气”空心状态,这种结构大大降低了分散相液滴的传质层厚度,减小了传质距离,极大地强化传质效率.在适宜气速下,气-液-液萃取效率较传统萃取效率提高20％～40％.通过与散装填料对比,发现规整填料更利于强化萃取效果,传质效率提高约50％.     

Mass transfer performance of structured packings in a CO2 absorption tower

This paper studies the mass transfer performance of structured packings in the absorption of CO2 from air with aqueous NaOH solution. The Eight structured packings tested are sheet metal ones with corrugations of different geometry parameters. Effective mass transfer area and overall gas phase mass transfer coefficient have been measured in an absorption column of 200 mm diameter under the conditions of gas F-factor in 0.38–1.52 Pa0.5 and aqueous NaOH solution concentration of 0.10–0.15 kmol·m?3. The effects of gas/liquid phase flow rates and packing geometry parameters are also investigated. The results show that the effective mass transfer area changes not only with packing geometry parameters and liquid load, but also with gas F-factor. A new effective mass transfer area correlation on the gas F-factor and the liquid load was proposed, which is found to fit experiment data very well.