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Slurry Reactor Hydrodynamic Studies Final Report

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Table of Contents 1369kb

Section 1
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Executive Summary

1

1.0

Introduction

4
 

1.1

Background

5

1.2

Slurry Reactors

6

1.3

Flow Regimes

7

2.0

Task 3 Objective

8
 

2.1

Dependent Variables

9

2.2

Independent Variables

10

3.0 

Experimental Procedure 

11

4.0 

Physical Property Determination

12

5.0 

Gas Holdup

14
 

5.1

Literature Review

14

5.2

Experimental

27

5.3

Results

29

5.4

Discussion

30
Section 2
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6.0 

Bubble Size

31
 

6.1

Theory

32

6.2

Experimental

32

6.3

Results

35

6.4

Discussion

35

7.0 

Mass Transfer

37
 

7.1

Theory

38

7.2

Experimental

38

7.3

Results

39

7.4

Discussion

39

8.0 

Liquid Dispersion

41
 

8.1

Theory

42

8.2

Experimental

44

8.3

Results and Discussion

45

9.0 

Solid Loading and Concentration Profiles

46
 

9.1

Theory

47

9.2

Experimental

50

9.3

Results

51

9.4

Discussion

52

9.5

Conclusions

54
Section 3
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10.0 

Heat Transfer

55
 

10.1

Theory

56

10.2

Experimental

57

10.3

Results and Discussion

59

11.0 

Engineering Evaluation

61

11.1

Staged Reaction Systems

64

12.0 

Acknowledgements

65

13.0 

Nomenclature

65

14.0 

References

70
 

15.0 

Tables 1369kb

80

16.0 

Figures 1405kb

109

A.0 

Appendices 255kb

144
 

A.5

Appendix to Section 5

144

A.9

Appendix to Section 9

148

A.11

Appendix to Section 11

151