Journal of Chemical Engineering & Process Technology
Open Access
ISSN: 2157-7048
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ISSN: 2157-7048
+44-20-4587-4809
Rafei J. Yaqub
Iraq
Research Article
Experimental Study of Volumetric Mass Transfer Coefficients in Slurry Bubble Column Reactor
Author(s): Saba Adnan Ghani, Rafei J. Yaqub and Suhaeb S. SalehSaba Adnan Ghani, Rafei J. Yaqub and Suhaeb S. Saleh
Scaling up of Fisher-Tropsh requires suitably accurate estimations of hydrodynamic and mass transfer parameters as a function of column size and slurry concentration. The present study focuses on gas holdup, volumetric mass transfer and local mass transfer coefficients in a slurry bubble column employing a C9-C11 Iraqi paraffin oil as a liquid phase, alumina and silica particles as a solid phase and oxygen was used as a gas phase because the properties of the paraffin oil are similar to those of Fisher-Tropsch wax under actual operating conditions in the industrial slurry bubble column and alumina and silica serve as carrier for the active cobalt catalyst utilized in the Fischer-Tropsch process. The experimental work was carried out using two rectangular (0.1 m length, 0.02 m width and 0.95 m height) and (0.1 m length, 0.02 m width and 2.6 m height) slurry bubble.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2157-7048.1000136