what is a slurry bubble column

Overview of Slurry phase bubble column Fischer Tropsch ...

Slurry phase bubble column type of reactor has been chosen for F-T synthesis process. The slurry phase reactor offers an isothermal operating condition and better heat transfer than alternative reactor designs[1]. The schematic of slurry phase reactor is shown in Figure 1. The reactor vessel is 7m in diameter and 30m in height.

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Simultaneous effect of particle size and solid ...

Sep 30, 2019· The simultaneous effect of particle size and concentration on the total gas holdup of slurry bubble column reactors was investigated in this work. The total gas holdup was measured for air–water–glass beads systems. Three solid concentrations and three particle diameters were used.

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Effect of Solid Particles on Gas Holdup in a Slurry Bubble ...

A slurry bubble column reactor is a multiphase reactor. It mainly consist of a slurry phase and a gas phase, where the slurry phase consists of solid and liquid. The gas phase is fed into the column from the bottom in the form of bubbles by using a sparger. The gas bubbles move upward throughout the column to be in direct contact with the ...

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Heat transfer and hydrodynamics in a three-phase slurry ...

Nov 01, 1997· Slurry bubble columns, for use in Fisher-Tropsch synthesis, have been investigated. Two bubble columns (0.108 and 0.305 m internal diameter) were set up and experiments were conducted to determine gas holdup and heat transfer coefficients. These columns were equipped with either single heat transfer probes of different diameters, or bundles of ...

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Slurry bubble column (C-2391) - ExxonMobil Research and ...

The present invention is a method for optimally operating a three phase slurry bubble column. The constituents of the three phases, gas, liquid, and solids, are …

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Dynamic Modeling of Slurry Bubble Column Reactors

slurry bubble columns operated with two chemical reaction systems. One reaction causes contraction in the gas-phase volume, and the other causes expansion. The change in the gas flow rate (expansion or contraction) along the reactor as a result of the chemical reaction kinetics

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US5348982A - Slurry bubble column (C-2391) - Google Patents

The present invention is a method for optimally operating a three phase slurry bubble column. The constituents of the three phases, gas, liquid, and solids, are determined by the chemical reaction in the column. The method includes injecting the gas phase into the column with an appropriate velocity so that the solid phase is fluidized while still maintaining "plug flow" over the column length.

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CFD simulation of flow and turbulence in a slurry bubble ...

Apr 16, 2004· The computed time‐averaged particle velocities and concentrations agree with PIV measurements of velocities and concentrations, obtained using a combination of gamma‐ray and X‐ray densitometry, in a slurry bubble column, operated in the bubbly‐coalesced fluidization regime with a continuous flow of water.

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Bubble Column Apparatus for Separating Wax from Catalyst ...

latmg slurry bubble column reactor is provided, comprising 4,605,678 A 8/ 1986 Brennan et al- discharging the recirculating slurry into the reactor through 55207890 A 5/1996 Lorentzen et al- at least one doWncomer Which terminates near the bottom of 5,599,849 A 2/1997 Jager et a1.

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Overview of Slurry phase bubble column Fischer …

Slurry phase bubble column type of reactor has been chosen for F-T synthesis process. The slurry phase reactor offers an isothermal operating condition and better heat transfer than alternative reactor designs[1]. The schematic of slurry phase reactor is shown in Figure 1. The reactor vessel is 7m in diameter and 30m in height.

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Slurry bubble column (C-2391) - Exxon Research ...

Slurry bubble column reactors operate by suspending catalytic particles in a liquid and feeding gas phase reactants into the bottom of the reactor through a gas distributor which produces small gas bubbles. As the gas bubbles rise through the reactor, the reactants are absorbed into the liquid and diffuse to the catalyst where, depending on the ...

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NOVEL TECHNIQUES FOR SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN …

NOVEL TECHNIQUES FOR SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN HYDRODYNAMICS Final Technical Report Principal Investigators: M.P. Dudukovic Washington University The Laura and William Jens Department of Chemical Engineering

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Modelling of a bubble column slurry reactor for Fischer ...

Slurry bubble column hydrodynamics is very com-plex and significantly influenced by the size of the column. Hence, it becomes essential to study the influence of scale on relatively large cold-flow experi-mental equipment, in order to predict the hydrody-namic parameters for industrial size bubble column reactors (5–8 m diameter).

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Bubble and Heat Transfer Phenomena in Viscous Slurry ...

The advantages of slurry bubble column reactor are including that it could be operated at nearly isothermal operation and flexibility to use small solid particles, which consequently results in good productivity, good interface contact, low pressure drop, and low construction and operation costs.

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(PDF) Bubble Column | Behnoosh Moshtari - Academia.edu

This maximum is transition point and in studying the hydrodynamic properties in slurry bubble column reactors, finding the gas velocity on transition point is one of the most important parameter for predicting slurry bubble column hydrodynamic behavior. For measuring the bubble size distribution a high speed camera was used.

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Mathematical Simulation of Bubble Column Slurry Reactor ...

height of slurry bed is lessen with the increasing of operation temperature in the range of 220-260℃. CO conversion, the optimal operation conditions in BCSR were proposed. Keywords—alcohol/ether fuel, bubble column slurry reactor, global kinetics, mathematical model I. INTRODUCTION HINA is a country with rich coal, lacking oil and poor gas

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Modeling of solid-particle effects on bubble breakage and ...

2018) in slurry bubble columns. The latter mentioned are of special interest and are relevant for industrial applications. The present work focuses on modeling the multiphase fluid dynamics with the coupled CFD–PBE approach in slurry bubble columns to account for enhanced bubble coalescence due to the presence of solid microparticles.

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Engineering development of slurry bubble column reactor ...

The major technical objectives of this program are threefold: (1) to develop the design tools and a fundamental understanding of the fluid dynamics of a slurry bubble column reactor to maximize reactor productivity, (2) to develop the mathematical reactor design models and gain an understanding of the hydrodynamic fundamentals under industrially relevant process conditions, and (3) to develop ...

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(PDF) Development of a computational multiphase flow model ...

A central component of the HYTEST is the slurry bubble column reactor (SBCR) in which the gas-to-liquid reactions will be performed to synthesize transportation fuels using the Fischer Tropsch (FT) process. SBCRs are cylindrical vessels in which gaseous reactants (for example, synthesis gas or syngas) is sparged into a slurry of liquid reaction ...

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MEASUREMENT OF BEHAVIOR OF GAS BUBBLES AND GAS …

Bubble properties such as gas holdup, bubble frequency, bubble length and bubble rising velocity in a slurry bubble column were measured by using a dual electroresistivity probe method. The radial distribution of local gas holdup, sg9 was parabolic in the range, where mean solid holdup, ss, was less

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Modeling of the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis in slurry bubble ...

Slurry bubble column (SBC) reactors are presently used for a wide range of processes in both chemical and biochemical industry. These processes include [1]: oxidation, hydrogenation, chlorination, alkylation, polymerization [2], methanol and Fischer–Tropsch

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MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF FISCHER- TROPSCH SLURRY BUBBLE ...

Apr 27, 2007· Three-phase slurry bubble column reactors are used in a wide variety of biological and chemical operations. This work is a comprehensive review of the mathematical modeling of such reactors for the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T)synthesis as applied to indirect coal liquefaction.

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CA2038774C - Slurry bubble column - Google Patents

The present invention is a method for optimally operating a three phase slurry bubble column. The constituents of the three phases, gas, liquid, and solids, are determined by the chemical reaction in the column. The method includes injecting the gas phase into the column with an appropriate velocity so that the solid phase is fluidized while still maintaining "plug-flow" over the column length.

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Measurement of Interfacial Area in A Bubble Column Reactor ...

May 06, 2019· Gas-liquid bubble columns are extensively used in the chemical industry. It is well known that bubble column reactors have a wide range of applications such as absorption, coal gasification, catalytic slurry reactions, and bioreactions etc1.

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A Scale-Up Strategy for a Commercial Scale Bubble Column ...

Bubble column reactors are finding increasing use in industrial practice; this reactor technology figures prominently in processes for converting natural gas to liquid fuels and light olefins using Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. There are considerable reactor design and scale-up problems associated with the Fischer-Tropsch bubble column slurry reactor.

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(PDF) Bubble Column Reactors - ResearchGate

Aug 01, 2005· slurry bubble column and found that gas holdup increases. with pressure and the pressure effect is more pronounced in. higher concentration slurries. In the study of Deckwer et al.

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CFD Analysis of Temperature Distributions in a Slurry ...

construction of the slurry bubble column reactors, their scale up analyses are complex due to the effect of various parameters on the hydrodynamic and heat transfer rates in these reactors. Direct-contact heat transfer in slurry bubble columns involves a complex phenomenon of bubble formation and gas motion through the slurry.

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Bubble and Heat Transfer Phenomena in Viscous Slurry ...

Heat transfer and bubble phenomena were investigated by adopting the drift flux model in a viscous slurry bubble column reactor (SBCR), having a diameter of 0.0508 m(ID) and height 1.5 m. The effects of superficial gas velocity (0.002 -0.164 m/s), solid concentration (0 - 20 wt%) and liquid viscosity (paraffin oil; 16.9 mPa•s and squalane; 25.9 mPa•s) on the gas holdup and heat transfer ...

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Interfacial mass transfer limitations of the Fischer ...

A mathematical model entitled varying‐bubble model (V‐BM) was adapted to simulate a slurry bubble column reactor, operating in a churn‐turbulent regime, based on axial‐dispersion model.

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Heat transfer and bubble dynamics in bubble and slurry ...

slurry bubble column reactors and contactors are simple in structures, their design, scale-up, operation, and performance prediction are still challenging and not well understood due to complex interaction of phases. All the studies of heat transfer have been performed

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Review Bubble column reactors - ULisboa

fluidized bed reactor, and the bubble column reactor. A bubble column reactor is basically a cylindrical vessel with a gas distributor at the bottom. The gas is sparged in the form of bubbles into either a liquid phase or a liquid–solid suspension. These reactors are generally referred to as slurry bubble column reactors when a solid phase ...

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CFD Modeling with Experimental Validation of the Internal ...

Feb 09, 2016· A multiphase-Eulerian, three-dimensional (3-D), computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was built to investigate the local hydrodynamics of a pilot-scale (0.29 m ID, 3 m height) Slurry Bubble Column Reactor (SBCR). The model was first validated against the gas holdup radial profiles in an air-water-glass beads system obtained in a 0.254 m ID and 2.5 m height column under ambient …

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Bubble column reactor - SlideShare

Feb 24, 2018· • In a three-phase slurry bubble column, the static pressure drop along the bed height can be expressed as • The magnitude of gas holdup radial gradients depends on superficial gas velocity, column diameter, physical properties of the system and operating conditions.

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ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT OF SLURRY BUBBLE …

Jan 01, 2002· Abstract. The major technical objectives of this program are threefold: (1) to develop the design tools and a fundamental understanding of the fluid dynamics of a slurry bubble column reactor to maximize reactor productivity, (2) to develop the mathematical reactor design models and gain an understanding of the hydrodynamic fundamentals under industrially relevant process conditions, and …

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Experimental Study of Volumetric Mass Transfer ...

Slurry bubble column; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer coefficient. Introduction. The use of Bubble columns (BCs) is widely spread through a number of industries and will become especially important in the . future in large scale conversion of natural gas and synthesis gas to fuels and chemicals.

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