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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages 292-302Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2016.09.001
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Mass transfer; Taylor flow; Lubrication film; PLIF-I; Shadowgraphy; Modelling
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An experimental investigation of mass transfer between bubbles, slugs and lubrication films is performed by means of optical techniques for air-water Taylor flows in a 3 mm glass channel. Bubble size, shape and velocity, as well as slug size and film thickness, are measured by use of the shadowgraphy technique. The PLIF-I technique, with associated specific technical adjustments and image processing methods, gives access to the dissolved oxygen concentration in the liquid phase with high spatial and temporal resolutions. Values of concentration are measured in the slugs and, for the first time, in the lubrication films, leading to the quantification of mass transfer contributions from caps and from the central bubble body. Results for overall mass transfer are compared to literature models based on volumetric coefficient k(L)a. Among them the model proposed by Van Baten and Krishna (2004), which considers cap and film contributions to k(L)a. They are found to fail to accurately predict the experimental data of average O-2 concentration in the liquid phase for short slugs (L-s < 2d(c)). An improved version of this model is proposed, allowing calculation of O-2 concentration for films and slugs along the channel. The model needs flow characteristics, which are obtained by shadowgraphy. (C) 2016 Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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