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Bubble Column Reactors are used in various types of chemical reactions like wet oxidation, or as algae bioreactor. Introduction of gas takes place at the bottom of the column and causes a turbulent stream to enable an optimum gas exchange. Bubble column is particularly useful in reactions where the gas-liquid reaction is slow in relation to the absorption rate.

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Bubble Column Reactor

Bubble Column Reactors are used in various types of chemical reactions like wet oxidation, or as algae bioreactor. Introduction of gas takes place at the bottom of the column and causes a turbulent stream to enable an optimum gas exchange. Bubble column is particularly useful in reactions where the gas-liquid reaction is slow in relation to the absorption rate.

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Representation of a bubble column
reactor
Bubble column reactor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A bubble column reactor is an apparatus used for gas-liquid reactions first
applied by Helmut Gerstenberg. It consists of vertically arranged cylindrical
columns. The introduction of gas takes place at the bottom of the column
and causes a turbulent stream to enable an optimum gas exchange. It is built
in numerous forms of construction. The mixing is done by the gas sparging
and it requires less energy than mechanical stirring. The liquid can be in
parallel flow or counter-current.
Bubble column reactors are characterized by a high liquid content and a
moderate phase boundary surface. The bubble column is particularly useful
in reactions where the gas-liquid reaction is slow in relation to the absorption
rate. This is the case for gas-liquid reactions with a Hatta number Ha <0.3.
Bubble column reactors are used in various types of chemical reactions like
wet oxidation, or as algae bioreactor. Since the computerized design of
bubble columns is restricted to a few partial processes, experience in the
choice of a particular type column still plays an important role..
Contents
1 Literature
2 Modeling of bubble column reactors
3 References
4 External links
Literature
Bubble column reactors belong to the general class of multiphase reactors which consist of three main categories
namely, the trickle bed reactor (fixed or packed bed), fluidized bed reactor, and the bubble column reactor. Bubble
columns are the devices in which gas, in the form of bubbles, come in contact with the liquid. The purpose may be
simply to mix the two phases or substances are transferred from one phase to another i.e. when the gaseous
reactants are dissolved in liquid or when liquid reactant products are stripped. The bubble column in which the gas
is fed into the column at the bottom and rises in the liquid escaping from it at the upper surface; the gas is consumed
to a greater or lesser extent depending on the intensity of mass transfer and chemical reaction.
Bubble Column Reactors, by Wolf-Dieter Deckwer, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-471-91811-0
Modeling of bubble column reactors
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The wide use of bubble column reactors has lead to various modeling, design and scale up procedures for these
gas-liquid contactors. Shimizu et al.
[1]
utilized Sauter mean diameter as a single bubble size and took into account
the bubble break-up and coalescence in the air-water system for predicting the gas-liquid volumetric mass transfer
coefficient and gas hold-up by simulation. Since the bubble size has a strong influence on hydrodynamic parameters
such as bubble rise velocity, gas residence time, gas-liquid interfacial area and gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient, it
can be claimed that considering bubble size distribution can assist the modeling of bubble columns more logically.
[2]
Ramezani et al.
[2]
modeled the bubble column reactor, considering the complete bubble size distribution in the
governing equations of mass transfer and reported a good agreement with experimental data. Bioconversion of
glucose to gluconic acid was considered in their investigation and concluded that superficial gas velocity favors
volumetric mass transfer coefficient and increases the amount of oxygen transfers from gas phase to liquid. The
reaction kinetics of gluconic acid production was revealed in another research.
[3]
References
1. ^ Shimizu, K.; Takada, S.; Minekawa, K.; Kawase, Y., Phenomenological model for bubble column reactors:
prediction of gas hold-ups and volumetric mass transfer coefficients. Chem. Eng. J. 2000, 78, (1), 21-28.
2. ^
a

b
Ramezani, M.;Mostoufi, N.; Mehrnia, M.R., Improved Modeling of Bubble Column Reactors by Considering
the Bubble Size Distribution. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2012, 51, (16), 57055714.
3. ^ Ramezani, M.;Mostoufi, N.; Mehrnia, M.R., Effect of hydrodynamics on kinetics of gluconic acid enzymatic
production in bubble column reactor. Chem. Ind. Chem. Eng. Quart. 2013, 19, (3), 411-442.
External links
Modeling of mass transfer characteristics of bubble column reactor with surfactant present
(http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus//2004/0406/040615.pdf)
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