The mass transfer of oxygen between an and water has been studled m a bubble column over wide ranges of hquld and gas velocity An oxygen probe was used to map the steady-state hqmd phase concentration of oxygen throughout the column At any given pomt m the column, the oxygen concentration mcreased w
Mass transfer in a recirculating bubble column
โ Scribed by D.A. Lewis; J.F. Davidson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 470 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2509
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โฆ Synopsis
The mass transfer of oxygen between air and water in a recirculating bubble column has been studied, at gas and water superficial velocities of up to 0.23 m SK' and 0.68 m s-l respectively. Experiments show that the assumption of plug flow for the gas phase is reasonable, eliminating a possible source of error identified by other workers in calculating the mass transfer rates. The results obtained are. consistent with other published work. It is also shown that for the air-water system breaking up the gas bubbles to increase the mass transfer does not have a large effect, due to rapid recoalescence of the bubbles.
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