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Characteristics of droplets formed on the outer surface of the rotating packed bed
HÁJEK, O. BOUCHAL, P. CEJPEK, O. MALÝ, M. HÁJEK, J. PRINZ, F. ZAWADSKI, D. BLATKIEWICZ, M. JÍCHA, M.
English title
Characteristics of droplets formed on the outer surface of the rotating packed bed
Type
article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus
Language
en
Original abstract
A rotating packed bed (RPB), as a device for mass transfer enhancement, can be divided into three main parts. An eye of a rotor, a packing, and an outer cavity. It has been reported that a contribution to the total mass transfer of the outer cavity can reach up to 30% of the whole device. Mass transfer is highly influenced by the droplet hydrodynamics and dimensions, hence the liquid dispersion from the outer surface of a metal foam packing was recorded with a high-speed camera. The recordings were analysed with an in-house MATLAB® code to determine the droplet dimensions, and with a PIVlab software to evaluate velocity fields. It has been found that the droplet dimensions and velocities were influenced primarily by a packing speed, as the higher packing speed resulted in a presence of the smaller droplets. Two peaks in histograms for the droplet diameters could be explained with a breakup theory of a liquid jet which breaks into large, mother, and small, satellite droplets. The droplet velocity corresponded to a peripheral velocity of the packing. A liquid flow rate influenced only the number of droplets dispersed from the packing.
English abstract
A rotating packed bed (RPB), as a device for mass transfer enhancement, can be divided into three main parts. An eye of a rotor, a packing, and an outer cavity. It has been reported that a contribution to the total mass transfer of the outer cavity can reach up to 30% of the whole device. Mass transfer is highly influenced by the droplet hydrodynamics and dimensions, hence the liquid dispersion from the outer surface of a metal foam packing was recorded with a high-speed camera. The recordings were analysed with an in-house MATLAB® code to determine the droplet dimensions, and with a PIVlab software to evaluate velocity fields. It has been found that the droplet dimensions and velocities were influenced primarily by a packing speed, as the higher packing speed resulted in a presence of the smaller droplets. Two peaks in histograms for the droplet diameters could be explained with a breakup theory of a liquid jet which breaks into large, mother, and small, satellite droplets. The droplet velocity corresponded to a peripheral velocity of the packing. A liquid flow rate influenced only the number of droplets dispersed from the packing.
Keywords in English
rotating packed bed, dispersion, droplet
Released
29.11.2022
Pages from–to
1–5
Pages count
5
BIBTEX
@inproceedings{BUT180420,
author="Ondřej {Hájek} and Patrik {Rapta} and Ondřej {Cejpek} and Milan {Malý} and Jiří {Hájek} and František {Prinz} and Dawid {Zawadski} and Michal {Blatkiewicz} and Miroslav {Jícha},
title="Characteristics of droplets formed on the outer surface of the rotating packed bed",
year="2022",
month="November",
pages="1--5"
}