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Gas-Liquid Mass Transfer using Advanced Optical Probe in a Mimicked FT Slurry Bubble Column
International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
  • Lu Han
  • Premkumar Kamalanathan
  • Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Gas-liquid volumetric liquid-phase mass transfer coefficient (kLα) was studied in a slurry bubble column at the conditions mimicking Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. To avoid the hydrodynamic disturbances due to the gas switching, oxygen enriched air dynamic absorption method was used. Influence of reactor models (CSTR, ADM and RCFD) on the volumetric mass transfer coefficient was investigated. Effect of operating pressure, superficial gas velocity and solids loading were investigated. From the reactor models investigated, it is recommended to use ADM model for kLα study. If the CSTR model is used, applicability of the model should be checked. With increase in the superficial gas velocity and operating pressure, volumetric liquid-phase mass transfer coefficient increases, while it decreases with the solids loading corroborating with the literature.

Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Comments
Early Access
Keywords and Phrases
  • Dissolved Oxygen Optical Probe,
  • Mass Transfer Coefficient,
  • Slurry Bubble Column
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2020 The Authors, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
12-25-2020
Publication Date
25 Dec 2020
Disciplines
Citation Information
Lu Han, Premkumar Kamalanathan and Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan. "Gas-Liquid Mass Transfer using Advanced Optical Probe in a Mimicked FT Slurry Bubble Column" International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2020) ISSN: 1542-6580
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/muthanna-al-dahhan/125/