Horizontal Injection of Gas–Liquid Mixtures in a Water Tank
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 134, Issue 12
Abstract
Experiments were carried out to investigate the behavior of horizontal gas–liquid injection in a water tank. Measurements of bubble properties and mean liquid flow structure were obtained. The turbulence in the liquid phase appears to help generating bubbles with relatively uniform diameters of . Both bubble properties and mean liquid flow structure depended on the gas volume fraction and the densimetric Froude number at the nozzle exit. It was found that the bubbles strongly affected the trajectory of the water jet, which behaved similarly to single-phase buoyant jets. However, at gas volume fractions smaller than about 0.15, the water jet completely separated from the bubble core. Bubble slip velocity was also found to be higher than the terminal velocity for isolated bubbles reported in the literature. Dimensionless correlations were proposed to describe bubble characteristics and the trajectory of the bubble plumes and water jets as a function of the gas volume fraction and the densimetric Froude number. Finally, applications of the results for aeration/mixing purposes are presented.
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Acknowledgments
The first writer is supported by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel Foundation (CAPES), Ministry of Education, Brazil. The writers would like to thank Perry Fedun and Chris Krath for building the experimental apparatus.
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Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 134 • Issue 12 • December 2008
Pages: 1722 - 1731
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© 2008 ASCE.
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Received: Aug 22, 2007
Accepted: Jun 7, 2008
Published online: Dec 1, 2008
Published in print: Dec 2008
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