High liquid holdup airlift tower loop reactor: II. Downcomer hydrodynamic modeling

✍ Scribed by Juan C García; Antonio G Lavín; Mario Díaz

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 352 KB
• Volume: 75
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0268-2575
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4660(200005)75:5<378::aid-jctb227>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

Hydrodynamics in the downcomer of a high liquid holdup airlift tower loop reactor, whose riser has been previously studied, is presented. A visual procedure with colorimetric tracers injected into the top part of the riser and monitored by means of a video camera system, for subsequent treatment of the obtained images, was used. The tracer front advance curves have suggested a compartmental model of three parameters to be used for physical transport processes.