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Three-Dimensional Gas-Liquid Simulation of an Airlift Bubble Column Reactor

G. M. Cartland Glover, M. Blažej, S. C. Generalis, and J. Markoš

Aston University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Division of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, UK-B4 7ET Birmingham

E-mail: S.C.Generalis@aston.ac.uk

Received: 25 February 2003

Abstract: Basic hydrodynamic parameters of an airlift reactor with internal loop were estimated experimentally and simulated using commercially available CFD software from Fluent. Circulation velocity in a 32-dm³-airlift reactor was measured using the magnetic tracer method, meanwhile the gas hold-up was obtained by analysis of the pressure drop using the method of inverted U-tube manometers. Comparison of simulated (in two and three dimensions) and experimental data was performed at di erent super cial gas velocities in the riser.

Chemical Papers 57 (6) 387–392 (2003)