TY  - JOUR
KW  - Dissolved oxygen; Energy efficiency; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis; Impellers; Liquids; Mass transfer; Mixing; Reynolds number; Tanks (containers); Volumetric analysis
KW  -  CSTR; Dissolved oxygen concentrations; Electrical resistance tomography; Fischer-Tropsch reaction; Gas hold up; Inter-phase mass transfer; Qualitative and quantitative analysis; Volumetric mass transfer coefficient
KW  -  Gases
KW  -  dissolved oxygen; polypropylene; water
KW  -  Article; conductance; electric conductivity; electric resistance; Fischer Tropsch synthesis; gas; impeller; oxygen concentration; productivity; stirred reactor; viscosity
ID  - scholars8495
N2  - BACKGROUND: A gas-entrainment impeller is attractive for multiphase reactive systems such as Fischerā??Tropsch reaction and deep liquid-phase oxidation of organics with the possibility of low gas conversion per pass, enhancement of mixing performance and better inter-phase mass transfer compared with conventional impellers. RESULTS: Tomograms obtained from ERT measurement reveal that the conductivity of a gasā??water system changes as a function of impeller Reynolds number, ReI. The global gas holdup profile behaviour with ReI exhibited a sigmoid character which was adequately captured by ĻµG = ĻµG,0 + ĻµG,max(1 ā?? exp(ā??Ļ?glReI)). The parity plot showed strong linearity between model predicted and experimental data. The radial gas holdup profiles showed an upward parabolic trend with higher gas holdup values for gas-entrainment impeller systems than the conventional 4-blade impeller. To assess the efficiency of power consumption, the mass transfer coefficient, kLa, for a gasā??liquid system in a stirred tank reactor was correlated as a function of dimensionless combination of power number and gas holdup; where Ī± is the bubble collision frequency (sā??1) and Ī² is the gas-inducing enhancement factor. CONCLUSION: Three different regimes of volumetric mass transfer coefficient were identified in the stirred tank reactor for each case. Overall, the combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of ERT along with dissolved oxygen concentration permitted an insightful analysis of the self-gas inducing impeller as a superior mixing technology for potential industrial applications involving gasā??liquid operations. Ā© 2017 Society of Chemical Industry. Ā© 2017 Society of Chemical Industry
IS  - 8
VL  - 92
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85014641027&doi=10.1002%2fjctb.5220&partnerID=40&md5=55932f6bfaa08fd982a2fa7f4d1e82b8
JF  - Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology
A1  - Abdullah, B.
A1  - Adesina, A.A.
Y1  - 2017///
TI  - Evaluation of gasā??liquid mass transfer in gas-induced stirred tank reactor using electrical resistance tomography
SP  - 2123
N1  - cited By 9
AV  - none
EP  - 2133
SN  - 02682575
PB  - John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ER  -