Chemical Reaction Effect upon Gas–Liquid Interfacial Area in a Bubble Column Reactor
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Abstract
This work analyses the influence of different experimental conditions over important hydrodynamic parameters of a bubble column reactor, such as bubble size distribution, gas hold-up and the gas–liquid interfacial area. The influence of gas flow-rate (18–40 L h–1) and reagent concentration (0–0.5 mol L–1) in the liquid phase upon these hydrodynamic parameters have been studied. The influence of experiment time must also be taken into account due to non-steady-state regime. Under these considerations, the chemical absorption rate changes throughout time, and it produces important changes upon the global absorption process, due to modifications in the gas–liquid interfacial area. The presence of a fast reaction in the liquid bulk has the highest influence upon interfacial area.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the Consellería de Economía e Industria of Galicia regional government (Xunta de Galicia) for funding the research through the research project 10MDS265021PR. Diego Gómez-Díaz gratefully acknowledge to Ministerio de Innovación y Ciencia of Spain the support under a “Ramón y Cajal” position.
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