Heat Transfer Investigations in a Slurry Bubble Column Final Report: Vol. 1

Heat Transfer Investigations in a Slurry Bubble Column
Final Report: Vol. 1 and 2 - 1991

Saxena, S. C.
Rao, N. S., Dr.
Vadivel, R., Dr.
Verma, A. K., Dr.
Shrivastav, S.
Saxena, A. C.
Patel, B. B.
Thimmapuram, P. R.
Kagzi, M. Y.
Khan, I. A.

Volume 1
					Page
Section 1 582kb	Objectives of the Project				3
	Abstract				4
	1.	Executive Summary			5
Section 2 392kb	2.	Introduction			20
Section 3 1023kb	3.	Experimental Facilities			30
		3.1	Small Bubble Column (1.108m i.d.)		30
			3.1.1	Heat Transfer Internals and Thermocouple Probes	35
			3.1.2	Data Acquisition and Analysis System	41
		3.2	Large Bubble Column (0.305m i.d.)		44
			3.2.1	Heat Transfer Internals and Radial Thermocouple Probes	49
			3.2.2	Temperature Controllers, Data Acquisition and Processing Systems	63
		3.3	Gas Supply System		63
		3.4	Powders and Their Properties		66
Section 4 820kb	4.	Experimental Data and Results			75
		4.1	Fluids and Their Properties		75
		4.2	Slurries and Their Properties		75
		4.3	Gas Holdup Data for the Small Column		77
			4.3.1	Operating Mode and a Typical Procedure	77
			4.3.2	Air-Water System	78
			4.3.3	Nitrogen-Therminol System	82
			4.3.4	Air-Water-Red Iron Oxide System	88
			4.3.5	Air-Water-Glass Bead System	92
			4.3.6	Air-Water-Magnetite System	92
			4.3.7	Nitrogen-Therminol-Red Iron Oxide System	102
			4.3.8	Nitrogen-Therminol-Magnetite System	109
Section 5 855kb		4.4	Heat Transfer Data for the Small Column		112
			4.4.1	Operating Mode and a Typical Procedure	112
			4.4.2	Air-Water System	115
			4.4.3	Nitrogen-Therminol System	127
			4.4.4	Air-Water-Red Iron Oxide System	127
			4.4.5	Air-Water-Glass Bead System	133
			4.4.6	Air-Water-Magnetite Sytem	137
			4.4.7	Nitrogen-Therminol-Red Iron Oxide System	147
			4.4.8	Nitrogen-Therminol-Magnetite System	153
Section 6 940kb		4.5	Gas Holdup Data for the Large Column		153
			4.5.1	Operating Mode and a Typical Procedure	153
			4.5.2	Air-Water System	158
			4.5.3	Nitrogen-Therminol System	165
			4.5.4	Air-Water-Silica Sand System	172
			4.5.5	Air-Water-Glass Bead System	172
			4.5.6	Air-Water-Magnetite System	187
			4.5.7	Nitrogen-Therminol-Magnetite System	187
Section 7 823kb		4.6	Heat Transfer Data for the Large Column		192
			4.6.1	Operating Mode and Typical Procedure	192
			4.6.2	Air-Water System	194
			4.6.3	Nitrogen-Therminol System	203
			4.6.4	Air-Water-Silica Sand System	207
			4.6.5	Air-Water-Glass Bead System	207
			4.6.6	Air-Water-Magnetite System	218
			4.6.7	Nitrogen-Therminol-Magnetite System	223
Volume II
Section 1 1591kb	5.	Discussion of Experiment and Theory: Gas Holdup			230
		5.1	Available Data and Correlations for Two-Phase Systems		230
		5.2	Available Data and Correlations for Three-Phase Systems		234
		5.3	Comparison of Present Two-Phase Data with Theory		236
		5.4	Comparison of Present Three-Phase Data with Theory		257
		5.5	Conclusions and Recommendations		273
Section 2 978kb	6.	Discussion of Experiment and Theory: Heat Transfer			276
		6.1	Available Data and Correlations for Two-Phase Systems		276
		6.2	Available Data and Correlations for Three-Phase System		283
		6.3	Comparison of Present Two-Phase Data with Theory		290
Section 3 1517kb		6.4	Comparison of Present Three-Phase Data with Theory		303
Section 3 1517kb		6.5	Conclusions and Recommendations		339
Section 4 614kb	7.	General Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Work			345
Section 4 614kb	8.	Nomenclature			359
Section 5 1534kb	9.	References			364
	10.	List of Figures			375
	11.	List of Tables			389
	12.	Acknowledgements			395