ZHANG Wenjie, CHU Guangwen, LUO Yong, et al. Micromixing in rotating packed bed with ceramic foam packing[J]. CIESC Journal, 2014, (8): 2976-2980.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2014.08.018.
Two kinds of ceramic foam packing with different apertures were used in a rotating packed bed (RPB). Micromixing efficiency in the RPB was experimentally studied by a parallel competing iodide-iodate reaction system
and segregation index (XS) was used to represent the efficiency. Effects of volumetric flow rate
concentration of H+
rotational speed
and volumetric flow ratio on the micromixing efficiency were investigated. Experimental results show that the ceramic foam packing with smaller aperture is better for micromixing. As concentration of H+ and volumetric flow ratio increase
XS increases
while it decreases with the increase of rotational speed and fluid flow rate. The micromixing time tm is calculated using incorporation model based on experimental results and the range of tm of ceramic foam packing is from 0.385 ms to 8.55 ms. Compared with traditional stainless steel mesh packing
the minimum value of tm of ceramic foam packing (0.385 ms) is much less than that of stainless steel mesh packing (1.6 ms). It means that ceramic foam packing presents better micromixing performance.