Journal
CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 1514-1521Publisher
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY PRESS CO LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2020.03.027
Keywords
External loop airlift reactor; Mixing; Separation; Hydrocyclone; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21808234, 21878318]
- DNL Cooperation Fund, CAS [DNL201902]
- Transformational Technologies for Clean Energy and Demonstration, Strategic Priority Research Program of the CAS [XDA21060400]
- QIBEBT
- Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy of the CAS [QIBEBT ZZBS201803, QIBEBT I201907]
- CAS Key Technology Talent Program
- Project of CNPC-DICP Joint Research Center
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A new developed external loop airlift slurry reactor, which was integrated with gas-liquid-solid three-phase mixing, mass transfer, and liquid-solid separation simultaneously, was deemed to be a promising slurry reactor due to its prominent advantages such as achieving continuous separation of clear liquid from slurry and cyclic utilization of solid particles without any extra energy, energy-saving, and intrinsic safety design. The principal operating parameters, including gas separator volume, handling capacity, and superficial gas velocity, are systematically investigated here to promote the capabilities of mixing, mass transfer, and yield in the pilot external loop airlift slurry reactor. The influences of top clearance and throughput of the clear liquid on flow regime and gas holdup in the riser, liquid circulating velocity, and volumetric mass transfer coefficient with a typical high solid holdup and free of particles are examined experimentally. It was found that increasing the gas separator volume could promote the liquid circulating velocity by about 14.0% at most. Increasing the handling capacity of the clear liquid from 0.9 m(3).h(-1) to 3.0 m (3).h(-1) not only could increase the output without any adverse consequences, but also could enhance the liquid circulating velocity as much as 97.3%. Typical operating conditions investigated here can provide some necessary data and guidelines for this new external loop airlift slurry reactor to upgrade its performances. (C) 2020 The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, and Chemical Industry Press Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
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