Experimental and numerical study of gas-liquid flow in a sectionalized external-loop airlift reactor

SM Teli, CS Mathpati - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The external loop airlift reactor (EL-ALR) is widely used for gas-liquid reactions. It's
advantage of good heat and mass transfer rates compared to conventional bubble column …

Gas‐liquid direct‐contact evaporation: A review

CP Ribeiro Jr, PLC Lage - Chemical Engineering & Technology …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Gas‐liquid direct‐contact evaporators are characterized by the bubbling of a superheated
gas through the solution to be concentrated. In other words, they are nonisothermal bubble …

Micro-bubble size distribution measurements by laser diffraction technique

HJB Couto, DG Nunes, R Neumann, SCA França - Minerals Engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
The size distribution of microbubbles generated for the dissolved air flotation process could
be assessed on a fast and reliable way by the application of laser diffraction technique. The …

Experimental study and numerical simulation with a coupled CFD–PBM model of the effect of liquid viscosity in a bubble column

C Xing, T Wang, J Wang - Chemical engineering science, 2013 - Elsevier
The effect of liquid viscosity on the hydrodynamic behavior in a bubble column was
investigated by experimental study and numerical simulation with a coupled CFD–PBM …

Generality of the CFD-PBM coupled model for bubble column simulation

H Zhang, A Sayyar, Y Wang, T Wang - Chemical Engineering Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Computational fluid dynamics coupled with a population balance model (CFD-PBM)
combines the use of CFD to calculate the flow field and phase holdup and that of PBM to …

Quantification and correlation analysis of bubble characteristics and heat transfer performance in direct contact heat exchanger

R Shen, Z Fan, J Xu, B Li, H Wang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, a combination of morphological processing and watershed algorithm is
proposed to measure bubble size, based on which an improved frame difference method is …

Numerical simulation of the bubble column at elevated pressure with a CFD-PBM coupled model

G Yang, K Guo, T Wang - Chemical Engineering Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Bubble column reactors are often operated under elevated pressure. However, the
significant effects of pressure are not well understood. This work aimed to simulate the …

Dynamics of bubble formation and detachment from an immersed micro-orifice on a plate

J Xie, X Zhu, Q Liao, H Wang, YD Ding - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2012 - Elsevier
Visualization experiments were carried out in the present study to investigate formation and
detachment of the bubbles developing from an immersed micro-orifice on a plate in a …

[HTML][HTML] Evaporation dynamics of microbubbles

WB Zimmerman, MKH Al-Mashhadani… - Chemical Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
Until recently, generating clouds of microbubbles was a relatively expensive proposition,
with the smallest bubbles requiring high energy density from either the saturation …

Experimental investigation of bubble group and temperature distribution uniformity in the direct contact boiling heat transfer process

B Li, Z Li, P Yang, J Xu, H Wang - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present study, a new method is proposed to measure the uniformity of temperature
distribution and the phase distribution in direct contact boiling heat transfer. The proposed …