Why Study Gas-Liquid Flows

The main interests in studying gas-liquid flows,

in devices like bubble columns or stirred tank
reactors, are:
Design and scale-up
Fluid dynamics and regime analysis
Hydrodynamic parameters
 Bubble Columns
To design bubble column reactors, the following
hydrodynamic parameters are required:
Specific gasliquid interfacial area ()
Sauter mean bubble diameter, ()
Axial and radial dispersion coefficients of the gas and
liquid, ()
Heat and mass transfer coefficients, (, )
Gas holdup, ()
Physicochemical properties of the liquid medium, (, )
 Bubble Columns: Regime Analysis

Two types of flow regimes are

commonly observed in bubble
columns:
The bubbly flow regime,
< /
Bubbles are of relatively uniform
small sizes ( = )
Rise velocity does exceed 0.025m/s
Holdup shows linear dependence
with the flow
 Bubble Columns: Regime Analysis
The churn turbulent flow
regime :
> /
Bubble are Large bubbles ( >
) and show wide size
distribution
Rise velocity is in the range of
1-2m/s