A study on hydrodynamic characteristics in a Φ38 pulsed extraction column by four-sensor optical fiber probe

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• 作者：Yukun Yuan and Yang Gao
• 刊名：AIChE Journal
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：63
• 期：2
• 页码：801-811
• 全文大小：1018K
• ISSN：1547-5905

文摘

Accurate prediction of dispersed phase droplet behavior is crucial to the design and scaling-up of an extraction column. In this article, the dispersed droplet velocity algorithm and the diameter algorithm in a liquid–liquid two-phase flow have been developed based on the bubble velocity model in gas–liquid two-phase flow of Lucas [Measurement Science & Technology. 749, 758(2005)] and Shen [International Journal of Multiphase Flow. 593, 617(2005)]. Hydrodynamic characteristics, including droplet diameter, holdup and droplet velocity, were measured using a self-made four-sensor optical fiber probe in a 38 mm-diameter pulsed sieve-plate extraction column. Water and kerosene were used as continuous and dispersed phases, respectively. The influences of the pulsed intensity, the continuous and dispersed phase superficial velocities on the hydrodynamic characteristics were investigated. The experimental results show that it is reliable to use a four-sensor optical probe to measure the hydrodynamic characteristics of a pulsed extraction column.