Impact of liquid driving flow on the performance of a gas-inducing impeller

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2013.02.009
• Publication Date: 2013-02-27T18:51:39Z
• Authors: Zhenyuan Wang; Peng Xu; Xuehua Li; Shuxu Wang; Zhenmin Cheng; Fan Ju
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; 0104 chemical sciences

Abstract The present work was conducted to improve the gas-induction performance over a preliminary gas-inducing impeller designed in our previous work. For the first time, a series of liquid-inlet holes with different diameters were drilled separately so as to examine their effects on the gas-induction process and also to find the optimum size. The critical impeller speed (NCG) and the overall gas hold-up (ɛG) were measured experimentally in order to evaluate the properties of the gas-inducing impeller. A mathematical model, which takes into account the geometrical parameters of the gas-inducing impeller, was proposed to predict NCG of the gas-inducing impeller with or without liquid-inlet holes. The predictions are in good agreement with the experimental results. The results also show that the optimum gas-induction properties would be obtained with respect to the lowest value of NCG and the highest value of ɛG, when the diameter of the liquid-inlet hole is approximately 0.5 times the diameter of the gas-inducing pipe.