To increase the applicability of a rotor−stator reactor (RSR) in gas−liquid mass transfer processes, the effective mass transfer area (a e ) and the local gas-side mass transfer coefficient (k G ) in the RSR were measured by employing a NaOH solution to absorb CO 2 and SO 2 , where gas radial velocity is required to be large enough to ignore the gas-side mass transfer resistance in determination of a e . The effects of operating conditions and stator rings on these mass transfer parameters were investigated. The experimental results showed that a e and k G in the RSR with stator rings were higher than those in the RSR without stator rings by 17−30 and 1−9%, respectively. a e in the RSR with stator rings was 3.4% lower than that in a rotating packed bed, but k G in such RSR was higher than that in the rotating packed bed by 78.6%, suggesting that the RSR has great potential for industrial applications in the processes controlled by gas-side mass transfer.