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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
卷 57, 期 11, 页码 1899-1908出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00051-9
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CFD; fluidization; modeling; momentum transfer; multiphase reactors; turbulence
Bubble columns are an important class of contacting devices in chemical industry and biotechnology. Their simple setup makes them ideal reactors for two- and three-phase operations such as fermentations or heterogeneous catalysis. Still, design and operation of these reactors is subject to widely empirical scale-up strategies. With recent advances in the development of measurement techniques, a more detailed approach to the development of optimized reactors for specific operations should become possible. This report is based on detailed measurements of local dispersed phase holdups in a pilot plant-sized bubble column operated at high superficial gas velocities and solid holdups. It deals with the influence of superficial gas velocity, solid loading and sparger geometry on measured and computed liquid flow velocities and holdup distributions. Liquid velocity measurements have been performed using the electrodiffusion method, modeling calculations have been carried out using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code CFX-4.3. Measurement results presented here give an insight into the development of liquid circulation and fluctuating velocity distribution depending on superficial gas velocity, solid loading and sparger geometry. CFD results implementing a multi-fluid model with k-epsilon turbulence and special momentum exchange terms for direct gas-solid interactions show that, even on standard PC workstations, this kind of computations can deliver qualitatively reasonable agreement with measurements. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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