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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 158, Issue 2, Pages 207-212Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2009.12.043
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Aeration; Bubble size; Gas hold-up; Horizontal flow systems; Wastewater treatment
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The objective of this experimental study was to collect and to interpret data in order to better understand the oxygen mass transfer phenomena occurring in full-scale aeration tanks equipped with fine bubble diffusers and slow speed mixers (inducing horizontal liquid flows). Bubble size, local depth and oxygen mass transfer coefficient were measured in situ for a given air flow rate (1555 N m(3) h(-1)) and for two different axial liquid velocities. The increase in the global oxygen transfer coefficient is of 29% when the mean axial liquid velocity varies from 0 to 0.42 m s(-1). The small influence of the liquid velocity on the local bubble Sauter diameter (about -4%) cannot explain the increase in k(L)a(20). This increase in k(L)a(20) with the axial liquid velocity is mainly due to the attenuation of the vertical liquid circulation induced by the gas injection. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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