TITLE: Circulation in Gas-Slurry Column Reactors: Second Quarterly Report, Quarter Ending March 31, 1988.

AUTHOR: N. Clark;   J. Kuhlman;   I. Celik.

INST.  AUTHOR: West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1988,  35p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE88013080/INW

ABSTRACT:

In this quarter the 20cm diameter laboratory bubble column has been constructed and tested with air-water operation. Theory has been developed based on experimental measurement of bubble shapes to predict bubble size distribution from probe measurements. In addition, an experimental technique for acquiring a global force balance on a bubble column has been used and data from this work are currently being processed. Numerical simulation of two phase systems has commenced. 12 refs., 16 figs. (ERA citation 13:044848)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/79935-4

CONTRACT  NUMBER: FG22-87PC79935