Influence of silicon oxide(SiO_2) and aluminum oxide(Al_2O_3) nanoparticles on the stability of nanoparticles and sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS) mixed solution foams was studied at bulk and bubble-scale. Foam apparent vi...Influence of silicon oxide(SiO_2) and aluminum oxide(Al_2O_3) nanoparticles on the stability of nanoparticles and sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS) mixed solution foams was studied at bulk and bubble-scale. Foam apparent viscosity was also determined in Hele-Shaw cell In order to investigate the foam performance at static and dynamic conditions. Results show that the maximum adsorption of surfactant on the nanoparticles occurs at 3 wt% surfactant concentration. Foam stability increases while the foamability decreases with the increasing nanoparticle concentration. However, optimum nanoparticle concentration corresponding to maximum foam stability was obtained at 1.0 wt% nanoparticle concentration for the hydrophilic SiO_2/SDS and Al_2O_3/SDS foams. Foam performance was enhanced with increasing nanoparticles hydrophobicity. Air-foams were generally more stable than CO_2 foams.Foam apparent viscosity increased in the presence of nanoparticles from 20.34 mPa·s to 84.84 mPa·s while the film thickness increased from 27.5 μm to 136 μm. This study suggests that the static and dynamic stability of conventional foams could be improved with addition of appropriate concentration of nanoparticles into the surfactant solution. The nanoparticles improve foam stability by their adsorption and aggregation at the foam lamellae to increase film thickness and dilational viscoelasticity. This prevents liquid drainage and film thinning and improves foam stability both at the bulk and bubble scale.展开更多
Over the past 60 years, the air concentration in water has been considered as a control index of cavitation erosion reduction and widely used in the designs of hydraulic structures. However, the mechanism of air entra...Over the past 60 years, the air concentration in water has been considered as a control index of cavitation erosion reduction and widely used in the designs of hydraulic structures. However, the mechanism of air entrainment against cavitation erosion has been paid good attention to. In the present work, the effect of air bubble size on cavitation erosion reduction was experimentally investigated. A device with micron-scale orifice diameters(10, 20 and 50 μm in size) was specially designed to introduce air bubbles into water. The experiments about the effect of air bubble size were conducted by means of a vibratory apparatus, including the behavior of formation and movement for single air bubble, the characteristics of cavitation erosion reduction at different air entrainment conditions. The findings demonstrate that high air concentration has significant effects on cavitation erosion reduction.But, a notable problem was that the size of air bubbles is of outstanding effect on cavitation erosion reduction. Small air bubbles support to alleviate cavitation erosion, even at same air concentration.展开更多
In this paper,the dynamic characteristics of the cylindrical bubbles under triple-frequency acoustic excitation are investigated theoretically.The analytical solution of the primary-superharmonic-subharmonic(PRI-SUPER...In this paper,the dynamic characteristics of the cylindrical bubbles under triple-frequency acoustic excitation are investigated theoretically.The analytical solution of the primary-superharmonic-subharmonic(PRI-SUPER-SUB)simultaneous resonance is obtained through the multi-scale method.Based on the analysis of the frequency response,the influencing mechanisms of the primary parameters(e.g.,the total amplitude,amplitude ratio,liquid viscosity,polytropic exponent,and bubble equilibrium radius)on the resonance are investigated quantitatively.The main conclusions include:(1)The solution for the simultaneous resonance of the cylindrical bubble exhibits jumping and hysteresis phenomena in the vicinity of the resonance frequency.(2)As the total amplitude,amplitude ratio,and equilibrium radius increase,the response amplitude of the PRI-SUPER-SUB simultaneous resonance increases,while the influence of the viscosity is the opposite.(3)The regions dominated by the instability of the simultaneous resonance is significantly affected by the system parameters.展开更多
Observational evidence is insufficient to understand how equatorial plasma bubbles(EPBs)form over low latitudes.The mechanism of plasma-density enhancement(formation of"plasma blobs")at low latitudes is in d...Observational evidence is insufficient to understand how equatorial plasma bubbles(EPBs)form over low latitudes.The mechanism of plasma-density enhancement(formation of"plasma blobs")at low latitudes is in dispute.In this paper,we use data from multiple ground-based instruments(one all-sky airglow imager,five digisondes,and one Fabry–Perot interferometer)to investigate the evolution of an EPB event that occurred at low latitudes over China on the night of 06 December 2015(06-Dec-2015).We provide observational evidence that an enhanced equatorward wind most likely induced by a substorm could have initiated the Rayleigh–Taylor instability(RTI)that destabilized several EPB depletions in an upwelling region of a large-scale wave-like structure(LSWS)in the bottomside ionosphere.Those EPB depletions were forced to surge poleward,from nearly 10°to 19°magnetic latitude,two hours before midnight.Smaller-scale bifurcations evolved rapidly from tips of airglow depletions by a secondary E×B instability when the aforementioned substorm-induced southwestward wind blew through.During the growth phase of the EPB depletions,a westward polarization electric field inside the LSWS is likely to have compressed plasma downward,inducing the two airglow-type blobs observed in the bottomside ionosphere,by a mechanism of LSWS-blob connection that we propose.We also provide observational evidence of brightness airglow depletions.We find that an enhanced poleward wind associated with a passing-by brightness wave(BW)is likely to have transported plasma to fill the airglow depletions,which finally evolved into brightness airglow structures.This study investigates the physical processes accompanied by the EPB event and those two-airglow blobs observed at low-latitudes over China.展开更多
The increasing concentration of CO_(2) in atmosphere is deemed the main reason of global warming.Therefore,efficiently capturing CO_(2) from various sources with energy conservation is of great significance.Herein,a s...The increasing concentration of CO_(2) in atmosphere is deemed the main reason of global warming.Therefore,efficiently capturing CO_(2) from various sources with energy conservation is of great significance.Herein,a series of experiments were carried out to successfully test the slurry-based ab-adsorption method for continuously capturing CO_(2) in the large-scale cycled separation unit with cost-effect taking into account the scale-up criteria.A bubble column(with height 4900 mm and inner diameter 376 mm)and a desorption tank(with volume 310 L)are the essential components of the separation unit.The novel slurry used in this study was formed with zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 and 2-methylimidazole-water solution.The influence of operation conditions was investigated systematically.The results show that increasing sorption pressure and slurry height level,decreasing gas volume flow and sorption temperature are beneficial for separation processes.The volume fraction of CO_(2) in the feed gas was also studied.Although the scale-up effect had been observed and it was found that it exerted a negative effect on CO_(2) capture,depending on experimental conditions,CO_(2) removal efficiency could still reach 85%-95%and the maximum CO_(2) loading in the recycled slurry could be up to0.007 mol·L-1·kPa-1.Furthermore,the slurry-based method could be operated well even under very moderate regeneration conditions(333 K and 0.05 MPa),which means that the novel approach shows greater energy conservation than traditional amine absorption methods.展开更多
It is generally admitted that experimental data obtained in“laboratory-scale”bubble columns are representative of“industrial-scale”reactors if the well-known three“Wilkinson et al.scale-up criteria”are satisfied...It is generally admitted that experimental data obtained in“laboratory-scale”bubble columns are representative of“industrial-scale”reactors if the well-known three“Wilkinson et al.scale-up criteria”are satisfied:(a)the diameter of the bubble column is larger than 0.15 m,(b)the sparger openings are larger than 1e2mm and(c)the aspect ratio is larger than 5.The aim of this communication is to contribute to the existing discussion.To this end,this communication collects relevant experimental investigation and include new experimental data:in particular,we have experimentally studied the combined effect of the aspect ratio(within the range of 1e15)and the sparger design(considering both“coarse”and“fine”spargers)on the gas holdup in a large-diameter and large-scale gas-liquid bubble column.The bubble column has been operated both in the batch mode and in the counter-current mode.Filtered air has been used as the gaseous phase in all the experiments,while the liquid phase has included deionized water and different aqueous solutions of organic(i.e.,ethanol)and inorganic(i.e.,sodium chloride,NaCl)active agents.It is found that the“Wilkinson et al.scale-up criteria”are valid for the air-water case in the batch mode for“very-coarse”spargers.Conversely,they are no more valid when considering different liquid velocity,and/or aqueous solutions of active agents,and other sparger openings.展开更多
A precise prediction of the fluid dynamics in bubble columns is of fundamental importance to correctly design“industrial-scale”reactors.It is known that the fluid dynamics in bubble columns is related to the prevail...A precise prediction of the fluid dynamics in bubble columns is of fundamental importance to correctly design“industrial-scale”reactors.It is known that the fluid dynamics in bubble columns is related to the prevailing bubble size distribution existing in the systems.In this respect,multiphase computational fluid dynamic simulations,in the Eulerian multi-fluid framework,are able to predict the local bubble size distributions and,thus,the global fluid dynamics from the fluid flow conditions and by applying modeling closured.In particular,in in“industrial-scale”reactors,owing to the large gas sparger openings,the“pseudo-homogeneous”flow regimedcharacterized by a wide spectrum of bubble sizesdis typically observed.Unfortunately,reliable predictions of the“pseudo-homogeneous”flow regime are limited up to now:one important drawback concerns the selection of appropriate models for the coalescence and break-up.A set of closure relations was collected at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf that represents the best available knowledge.Recently,the authors have extended the validation of this set of closure relations to the“pseudo-homogeneous”flow regime,by comparing the numerical predictions to a comprehensive experimental dataset(gas holdup,bubble size distributions and local flow measurements).Unfortunately,the previous study suffers from some limitations;in particular,in the previous experimental dataset,the bubble size distributions concerned only one axial position and a detailed characterization of the gas sparger was missing.This study contributes to the existing discussion and proposed a step ahead in the study of the“pseudo-homogenous”flow regime.To this end,we propose an experimental study,to improve the comprehensive dataset previously obtained.The novel datasetdobtained for two gas velocitiesdconcerns bubble size distributions at different axial and radial positions and a precise characterization of the gas sparger.The comprehensive bubble size distribution dataset may serve as bas展开更多
It is known that the performances of multi-phase reactors depend on the operating parameters(the temperature and the pressure of the system),the phase properties,and the design parameters(the aspect ratio(AR),the bubb...It is known that the performances of multi-phase reactors depend on the operating parameters(the temperature and the pressure of the system),the phase properties,and the design parameters(the aspect ratio(AR),the bubble column diameter,and the gas sparger design).Hence,the precise design and the correct operation of multi-phase reactors depends on the understanding and prediction of the fluid dynamics parameters.This paper contributes to the existing discussion on the effect of operating and design parameter on multi-phase reactors and,in particular,it considers an industrial process(e.g.,the LOPROX(low pressure oxidation)case study,which is typical example of two-phase bubble columns).Based on a previously-validated set of correlations,the influence of operating and design parameter on system performances is studied and critically analyzed.First,we studied the effects of the design parameter on the liquid–gas interfacial area,by keeping constant the fluid physical–chemical properties as well as the operating conditions;subsequently,we discussed for a fixed system design,the influence of the liquid phase properties and the operating pressure.In conclusion,this paper is intended to provide guidelines for the design and scale-up of multi-phase reactors.展开更多
基金the Ministry of Higher Education(Vot no.Q.J130000.2542.08H61)Universiti Teknologi(UTM)Malaysia,for supporting this research through research management grant
文摘Influence of silicon oxide(SiO_2) and aluminum oxide(Al_2O_3) nanoparticles on the stability of nanoparticles and sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS) mixed solution foams was studied at bulk and bubble-scale. Foam apparent viscosity was also determined in Hele-Shaw cell In order to investigate the foam performance at static and dynamic conditions. Results show that the maximum adsorption of surfactant on the nanoparticles occurs at 3 wt% surfactant concentration. Foam stability increases while the foamability decreases with the increasing nanoparticle concentration. However, optimum nanoparticle concentration corresponding to maximum foam stability was obtained at 1.0 wt% nanoparticle concentration for the hydrophilic SiO_2/SDS and Al_2O_3/SDS foams. Foam performance was enhanced with increasing nanoparticles hydrophobicity. Air-foams were generally more stable than CO_2 foams.Foam apparent viscosity increased in the presence of nanoparticles from 20.34 mPa·s to 84.84 mPa·s while the film thickness increased from 27.5 μm to 136 μm. This study suggests that the static and dynamic stability of conventional foams could be improved with addition of appropriate concentration of nanoparticles into the surfactant solution. The nanoparticles improve foam stability by their adsorption and aggregation at the foam lamellae to increase film thickness and dilational viscoelasticity. This prevents liquid drainage and film thinning and improves foam stability both at the bulk and bubble scale.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51409187)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.2016B09914)
文摘Over the past 60 years, the air concentration in water has been considered as a control index of cavitation erosion reduction and widely used in the designs of hydraulic structures. However, the mechanism of air entrainment against cavitation erosion has been paid good attention to. In the present work, the effect of air bubble size on cavitation erosion reduction was experimentally investigated. A device with micron-scale orifice diameters(10, 20 and 50 μm in size) was specially designed to introduce air bubbles into water. The experiments about the effect of air bubble size were conducted by means of a vibratory apparatus, including the behavior of formation and movement for single air bubble, the characteristics of cavitation erosion reduction at different air entrainment conditions. The findings demonstrate that high air concentration has significant effects on cavitation erosion reduction.But, a notable problem was that the size of air bubbles is of outstanding effect on cavitation erosion reduction. Small air bubbles support to alleviate cavitation erosion, even at same air concentration.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51976056).
文摘In this paper,the dynamic characteristics of the cylindrical bubbles under triple-frequency acoustic excitation are investigated theoretically.The analytical solution of the primary-superharmonic-subharmonic(PRI-SUPER-SUB)simultaneous resonance is obtained through the multi-scale method.Based on the analysis of the frequency response,the influencing mechanisms of the primary parameters(e.g.,the total amplitude,amplitude ratio,liquid viscosity,polytropic exponent,and bubble equilibrium radius)on the resonance are investigated quantitatively.The main conclusions include:(1)The solution for the simultaneous resonance of the cylindrical bubble exhibits jumping and hysteresis phenomena in the vicinity of the resonance frequency.(2)As the total amplitude,amplitude ratio,and equilibrium radius increase,the response amplitude of the PRI-SUPER-SUB simultaneous resonance increases,while the influence of the viscosity is the opposite.(3)The regions dominated by the instability of the simultaneous resonance is significantly affected by the system parameters.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants No.41831073 and No.41804146)the Open Research Project of Large Research Infrastructures of Chinese Acadamy of Sciences—"Study on the interaction between low/midlatitude atmosphere and ionosphere based on the Chinese Meridian Project”+2 种基金the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2020156)the Project of Stable Support for Youth Team in Basic Research Field,CAS(Grant No.YSBR-018)the International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.183311KYSB20200003)。
文摘Observational evidence is insufficient to understand how equatorial plasma bubbles(EPBs)form over low latitudes.The mechanism of plasma-density enhancement(formation of"plasma blobs")at low latitudes is in dispute.In this paper,we use data from multiple ground-based instruments(one all-sky airglow imager,five digisondes,and one Fabry–Perot interferometer)to investigate the evolution of an EPB event that occurred at low latitudes over China on the night of 06 December 2015(06-Dec-2015).We provide observational evidence that an enhanced equatorward wind most likely induced by a substorm could have initiated the Rayleigh–Taylor instability(RTI)that destabilized several EPB depletions in an upwelling region of a large-scale wave-like structure(LSWS)in the bottomside ionosphere.Those EPB depletions were forced to surge poleward,from nearly 10°to 19°magnetic latitude,two hours before midnight.Smaller-scale bifurcations evolved rapidly from tips of airglow depletions by a secondary E×B instability when the aforementioned substorm-induced southwestward wind blew through.During the growth phase of the EPB depletions,a westward polarization electric field inside the LSWS is likely to have compressed plasma downward,inducing the two airglow-type blobs observed in the bottomside ionosphere,by a mechanism of LSWS-blob connection that we propose.We also provide observational evidence of brightness airglow depletions.We find that an enhanced poleward wind associated with a passing-by brightness wave(BW)is likely to have transported plasma to fill the airglow depletions,which finally evolved into brightness airglow structures.This study investigates the physical processes accompanied by the EPB event and those two-airglow blobs observed at low-latitudes over China.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial supports received from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21776301,21636009)the Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum,Beijing(2462018BJC004).
文摘The increasing concentration of CO_(2) in atmosphere is deemed the main reason of global warming.Therefore,efficiently capturing CO_(2) from various sources with energy conservation is of great significance.Herein,a series of experiments were carried out to successfully test the slurry-based ab-adsorption method for continuously capturing CO_(2) in the large-scale cycled separation unit with cost-effect taking into account the scale-up criteria.A bubble column(with height 4900 mm and inner diameter 376 mm)and a desorption tank(with volume 310 L)are the essential components of the separation unit.The novel slurry used in this study was formed with zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 and 2-methylimidazole-water solution.The influence of operation conditions was investigated systematically.The results show that increasing sorption pressure and slurry height level,decreasing gas volume flow and sorption temperature are beneficial for separation processes.The volume fraction of CO_(2) in the feed gas was also studied.Although the scale-up effect had been observed and it was found that it exerted a negative effect on CO_(2) capture,depending on experimental conditions,CO_(2) removal efficiency could still reach 85%-95%and the maximum CO_(2) loading in the recycled slurry could be up to0.007 mol·L-1·kPa-1.Furthermore,the slurry-based method could be operated well even under very moderate regeneration conditions(333 K and 0.05 MPa),which means that the novel approach shows greater energy conservation than traditional amine absorption methods.
文摘It is generally admitted that experimental data obtained in“laboratory-scale”bubble columns are representative of“industrial-scale”reactors if the well-known three“Wilkinson et al.scale-up criteria”are satisfied:(a)the diameter of the bubble column is larger than 0.15 m,(b)the sparger openings are larger than 1e2mm and(c)the aspect ratio is larger than 5.The aim of this communication is to contribute to the existing discussion.To this end,this communication collects relevant experimental investigation and include new experimental data:in particular,we have experimentally studied the combined effect of the aspect ratio(within the range of 1e15)and the sparger design(considering both“coarse”and“fine”spargers)on the gas holdup in a large-diameter and large-scale gas-liquid bubble column.The bubble column has been operated both in the batch mode and in the counter-current mode.Filtered air has been used as the gaseous phase in all the experiments,while the liquid phase has included deionized water and different aqueous solutions of organic(i.e.,ethanol)and inorganic(i.e.,sodium chloride,NaCl)active agents.It is found that the“Wilkinson et al.scale-up criteria”are valid for the air-water case in the batch mode for“very-coarse”spargers.Conversely,they are no more valid when considering different liquid velocity,and/or aqueous solutions of active agents,and other sparger openings.
文摘A precise prediction of the fluid dynamics in bubble columns is of fundamental importance to correctly design“industrial-scale”reactors.It is known that the fluid dynamics in bubble columns is related to the prevailing bubble size distribution existing in the systems.In this respect,multiphase computational fluid dynamic simulations,in the Eulerian multi-fluid framework,are able to predict the local bubble size distributions and,thus,the global fluid dynamics from the fluid flow conditions and by applying modeling closured.In particular,in in“industrial-scale”reactors,owing to the large gas sparger openings,the“pseudo-homogeneous”flow regimedcharacterized by a wide spectrum of bubble sizesdis typically observed.Unfortunately,reliable predictions of the“pseudo-homogeneous”flow regime are limited up to now:one important drawback concerns the selection of appropriate models for the coalescence and break-up.A set of closure relations was collected at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf that represents the best available knowledge.Recently,the authors have extended the validation of this set of closure relations to the“pseudo-homogeneous”flow regime,by comparing the numerical predictions to a comprehensive experimental dataset(gas holdup,bubble size distributions and local flow measurements).Unfortunately,the previous study suffers from some limitations;in particular,in the previous experimental dataset,the bubble size distributions concerned only one axial position and a detailed characterization of the gas sparger was missing.This study contributes to the existing discussion and proposed a step ahead in the study of the“pseudo-homogenous”flow regime.To this end,we propose an experimental study,to improve the comprehensive dataset previously obtained.The novel datasetdobtained for two gas velocitiesdconcerns bubble size distributions at different axial and radial positions and a precise characterization of the gas sparger.The comprehensive bubble size distribution dataset may serve as bas
文摘It is known that the performances of multi-phase reactors depend on the operating parameters(the temperature and the pressure of the system),the phase properties,and the design parameters(the aspect ratio(AR),the bubble column diameter,and the gas sparger design).Hence,the precise design and the correct operation of multi-phase reactors depends on the understanding and prediction of the fluid dynamics parameters.This paper contributes to the existing discussion on the effect of operating and design parameter on multi-phase reactors and,in particular,it considers an industrial process(e.g.,the LOPROX(low pressure oxidation)case study,which is typical example of two-phase bubble columns).Based on a previously-validated set of correlations,the influence of operating and design parameter on system performances is studied and critically analyzed.First,we studied the effects of the design parameter on the liquid–gas interfacial area,by keeping constant the fluid physical–chemical properties as well as the operating conditions;subsequently,we discussed for a fixed system design,the influence of the liquid phase properties and the operating pressure.In conclusion,this paper is intended to provide guidelines for the design and scale-up of multi-phase reactors.
