Effect of phase dispersion and mass transfer direction on steady state RDC performance using population balance modelling

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 379-387

  Jaradat, Moutasem ^a   Attarakih, Menwer ^a,b   Bart, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer direction; Phase dispersion; Population balances; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SYSTEMS; DISPERSED PHASE; DISPERSED PHASE HOLD-UP; DROPLET DIAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; HEAVY PHASE; LLECMOD; MEAN DIAMETER; MEAN FLOW PROPERTIES; N-BUTYL ACETATE; N-HEPTANES; PHASE DISPERSION; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; POPULATION BALANCES; RDC COLUMN; SIMULATION; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE PERFORMANCE;

ACETONE; BENZENE; DISPERSIONS; DROP FORMATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PILOT PLANTS; TOLUENE;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 78349310647     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.09.049     Document Type: Review

References (54)

1. Attarakih M.M., Bart H.-J., Steinmetz T., Dietzen M., Faqir N.M. LLECMOD: a bivariate population balance simulation tool for liquid-liquid extraction columns. Open Chem. Eng. J. 2008, 2:10-34.
2. Gerstlauer A. Herleitung und Reduktion populationsdynamischer Modelle am Beispiel der Flüssig-Flüssig-Extraktion. Fortschritt-Berichte VDI 1999.
3. Modes G., Bart H.-J., Rodrigues-Peranchoand D., Bröder D. Simulation of the fluid dynamics of solvent extraction columns from single droplet parameters. Chem. Eng. Technol. 1999, 22(3):231-236.
4. Liquid-Liquid Extraction Equipment 1994, Wiley & Sons, Chichester. J.C. Godfrey, M.J. Slater (Eds.).
5. Handbook of Solvent Extraction 1983, Wiley & Sons, New York. T.C. Lo, M.H.I. Baird, C. Hanson (Eds.).
6. Attarakih M.M., Bart H.-J., Faqir N.M. Numerical solution of the bivariate population balanced equation for the interacting hydrodynamics and mass transfer in liquid-liquid extraction columns. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2006, 61:113-123.
7. Schmidt A.S., Simon M., Attarakih M.M., Lagar L.G., Bart H.-J. Droplet population balance modelling: hydrodynamics and mass transfer. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2006, 61:246-256.
8. Attarakih M.M., Bart H.-J., Faqir N.M. A hybrid scheme for the solution of the bivariate spatially distributed population balanced equation. Chem. Eng. Technol. 2006, 29:435-441.
9. Saboni A., Gourdon C., Chesters A.K. The influence of inter-phase mass transfer on the drainage of partially mobile liquid films between drops undergoing a constant interaction force. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1999, 54:461-473.
10. Godfrey J.C., Slater M.J. Slip velocity relationships for liquid-liquid extraction columns. Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1991, 69:130-141.
11. C. Gourdon, Les Colonnes d'Extraction par Solvant: Modèlesetcomportement, Dissertation, Institute National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Toulouse, 1989.
12. Gourdonand C., Casamatta G. Influence of mass transfer direction on the operation of a pulsed sieve-plate pilot column. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1991, 46(11):2799-2808.
13. D. Garthe, Fluiddynamics and mass transfer of single particles and swarms of particles in extraction column, Dissertation, TU München, München, 2006.
14. Madden A.J., Damerell G.L. Coalescence frequencies in agitated liquid-liquid systems. AIChE J. 1962, 8(2):233-239.
15. Johnson H.F., Bliss H. Liquid-liquid extraction in spray towers. Trans. Am. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1946, 42:331-358.
16. Groothuis H., Zuiderweg F.J. Influence of mass transfer on coalescence of drops. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1960, 12:288-289.
17. Logsdail D.H., Thornton J.D. Liquid-liquid extraction. Part XIV: the effect of column diameter upon the performance and throughput of pulsed plate columns. Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1957, 35:331-342.
18. Cauwenberg V., Degreve J., Slater M.J. The interaction of solute transfer, contaminates and drop break-up in rotating disc contactors: Part I. Correlation of drop breakage probabilities. Can. J. Chem. Eng. 1997, 75:1046-1055.
19. Weiss J., Steiner L., Hartland S. Determination of actual drop velocities in agitated extraction columns. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1995, 50(2):255-261.
20. Prabhakar A., Sriniketan G., Varma Y.B.G. Dispersed phase holdup and drop size distribution in pulsed plate columns. Can. J. Chem. Eng. 1988, 66:232-240.
21. Thornton J.D. Liquid-liquid extraction. Part XIII: the effect of pulse wave form and plate geometry on the performance and throughput of a pulsed column. Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1957, 35:136-330.
22. Tung L.S., Luecke R.H. Mass transfer and drop sizes in pulsed-plate extraction columns. Ind. Eng. Chem. Process Des. Dev. 1986, 25:664-673.
23. Kleczek F., Cauwenberg V., Rompay P.V. Effect of mass transfer on droplet size in liquid-liquid dispersions. Chem. Eng. Technol. 1989, 12:395-399.
24. Komasawa J., Ingham J. Effect of system properties on the performance of liquid-liquid extraction columns-II. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1978, 33:479-485.
25. Bapat P.M., Tavlarides L.L. Mass transfer in a liquid-liquid CFSTR. AIChE J. 1985, 31(4):659-666.
26. A.K. Bensalem, Hydrodynamics and mass transfer in a reciprocating plate extraction column, Dissertation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1985.
27. Marangoni C. Difesa della teoria dell'elasticità superficiale dei liquidi. Plasticità superficiale. Il Nuovo Cimento 1878, 3(1):193-211.
28. C. Marangoni, Sul principio della viscosità super ficiale dei liquidi stabilito dal sig. Plateau, Nuovo Cimento 2 5/6 (1871) 239-273.
29. Cauwenberg K., Degreve J., Slater M.J. The interaction of solute transfer, contaminants and drop break-up in rotating disc contactors: Part II. The coupling of the mass transfer and breakage processes via interfacial tension. Can. J. Chem. Eng. 1997, 75:1056-1066.
30. Gourdon C., Casamatta G., Muratet G. Population balance based modelling of solvents extraction columns. Liquid-Liquid Extraction Equipment 1994, 137-226. Wiley & Sons, New York. J.C. Godfrey, M.J. Slater (Eds.).
31. Huangs Y.-Y., Lu M. Continuous phase mass transfer coefficients for single droplets moving in an infinite droplet chain. Chem. Eng. Commun. 1999, 171(1):181-194.
32. Kumar A., Hartland S. Mass transfer in a Kühni extraction column. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1988, 27:1198-1203.
33. Attarakih M.M., Bart H.-J., Faqir N.M. LLECMOD: a windows-based program for hydrodynamics simulation of liquid-liquid extraction columns. Chem. Eng. Process. 2006, 45(2):113-123.
34. Steinmetz T., Schmidt S.A., Bart H.-J. Modellierung gerührter Extraktionskolonnen mit dem Tropfenpopulationsbilanzmodell. Chem. Ing. Technol. 2005, 77(6):723-733.
35. Klee A.J., Treybal R.E. Rate of rise or fall of liquid drops. AIChE J. 1956, 2:444-447.
36. Vignes A. Hydrodynamique des dispersions. Genie Chim. 1965, 93:129-142.
37. Grace J.R., Wairegi T., Nguyen T.H. Shapes and velocities of single drops and bubbles moving freely through immiscible liquids. Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1976, 54:167-173.
38. Henschke M. Auslegung pulsierter Siebboden-Extraktionskolonnen 2003, RWTH Aachen, Habilitationsschrift.
39. Wesselinghand J.A., Bollen A.M. Single particles, bubbles and drops: their velocities and mass transfer coefficients. Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1999, 77:89-96.
40. Coulaloglou C.A., Tavlarides L.L. Description of interaction processes in agitated liquid-liquid dispersions. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1977, 32:1289-1297.
41. Kumarand A., Hartland S. Correlations for prediction of mass transfer coefficients in single drop systems and liquid-liquid extraction columns. Trans. Inst. Chem. Eng. 1999, 77(A):372-384.
42. Newman A.B. The drying of porous solids diffusion and surface emission equations. AIChE J. 1931, 27:203-220.
43. Handlos A.E., Baron T. Mass transfer from drops in liquid extraction. AIChE J. 1957, 3:127-136.
44. Kronig R., Brink J. On the theory of extraction from falling droplets. Appl. Sci. Res. 1950, A2:142-154.
45. B.H. Wolschner, Konzentrationsprofile in Drehscheibenextraktoren, Dissertation, Technische UniversitätGraz, Graz, 1980.
46. Korschinsky W.J., Young C.H. Modelling drop-side mass transfer in agitated polydispersed liquid-liquid systems. Chem. Eng. Sci. 1989, 40:2355-2361.
47. Slater M.J. A combined model of mass transfer coefficients for contaminated drop liquid-liquid systems. Can. J. Chem. Eng. 1995, 73:462-469.
48. Bart H.-J. Reactive Extraction 2001, Springer, Berlin.
49. Recommended Systems for Liquid-Liquid Extraction Studies, European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Working Party on Distillation, Absorption and Extraction 1978, The Institution of Chemical Engineers, Rugby. T. Misek (Ed.).
50. Standard Test Systems for Liquid-Liquid Extraction, European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Working Party on Distillation, Absorption and Extraction 1985, The Institution of Chemical Engineers, Rugby. T. Misek, R. Berger, J. Schröter (Eds.).
51. Shen Z.J., Ramarao N.V., Baird M.H.I. Mass transfer in a reciprocating plate extraction column-effects of mass transfer direction and plate material. Can. J. Chem. Eng. 1985, 63(1):29-36.
52. Venkatanarasaiah D., Varma Y.B.G. Dispersed phase holdup and mass transfer in liquid pulsed column. Bioprocess. Biosyst. Eng. 1988, 18:119-126.
53. Kumar A., Hartland S. Prediction of drop size in rotating disc extractors. Can. J. Chem. Eng. 1986, 64:915-924.
54. Kumar A., Hartland S. Empirical prediction of operating variables. Liquid-Liquid Extraction Equipment 1994, 141-226. Wiley & Sons, Chichester. J.C. Godfrey, M.J. Slater (Eds.).