Hydrodynamics of gas–liquid counter-current flow in solid foam packings

Stemmet, CP Charl; Jongmans, JN; Schaaf, van der J John; Kuster, Bfm Ben; Schouten, JC Jaap

doi:10.1016/j.ces.2005.03.027

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“…This property combined with a high specific surface of up to the order of 10 4 m 2 /m 3 is a major advantage compared to common packing material and fixed beds. In contrast to the excellent heat transfer characteristics of open celled metal foam (Bhattacharya et al, 2002;Boomsma et al, 2003;Hackeschmidt, 2005;Lu et al, 1998) the mass transfer (Ferrouillat et al, 2006;Stemmet et al, 2005) and the hydrodynamic flow behavior (Dimopoulos Eggenschwiler et al, 2009) was investigated only by few researchers. Within this study we ascertain metal foam from m-pore GmBH (Germany) of 20, 30 and 45 ppi concerning mixing efficiency in an application-oriented assembly with respect to the use as static mixing elements in continuous plug flow reactors.…”

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Scalar transport in a milli-scale metal foam reactor

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Allemann

Kuhn

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Chemical Engineering Science

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Scalar transport in a milli-scale metal foam reactor

Hutter

Allemann

Kuhn

et al. 2010

Chemical Engineering Science

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“…In view of mass transport and heat transfer applications, metal foam can potentially become alternative medium for variety of industrial components (Stemmet et al 2005(Stemmet et al , 2006(Stemmet et al , 2007Richardson et al 2000), particularly for fuel cell flow fields Reddy 2002, 2004;Arisetty et al 2007). Particularly, when utilizing metal foam component as part of the computational modeling, detailed material property database (such as permeability, porosity) is essential for accurate simulation, but such database is not currently available in the literature for the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processed nickel metal foam.…”

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Hydrodynamic Characterization of Nickel Metal Foam, Part 2: Effects of Pore Structure and Permeability

Miwa¹,

Revankar²

2011

Transp Porous Med

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In this article, the structural characterization of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) nickel metal foam is presented. Scanning electron microscope and post image processing were used to carefully analyze the surface of the nickel metal foams. Data on foam unit cell, ligament thickness, projected pore diameter, and averaged porosity was obtained. Unit cell and projected pore diameters of CVD nickel metal foam possess Gaussian-like distribution. Characteristics of pore structure and its effect on permeability in Darcian flow regime were analyzed. The relations between the permeability, pore size, and porosity are presented. Present and previous data are compared with these relations. Measurement results indicate that the permeability or the viscous conductivity of the CVD processed metal foam is affected not only by the pore size, and porosity but also by the ligament structure.

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“…Metal foam can potentially become alternative medium for a variety of industrial components such as catalytic reactor (Stemmet et al 2005(Stemmet et al , 2006(Stemmet et al , 2007Richardson et al 2000), heat exchanger (Paek et al 2000;Krishnan et al 2006), filtration (Moreira et al 2004), fuel cell flow fields Reddy 2003, 2004;Arisetty et al 2007), and shock absorbers (Oppenheimer and Dunand 2007).…”

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Hydrodynamic Characterization of Nickel Metal Foam, Part 1: Single-Phase Permeability

Miwa

Revankar

2009

Transp Porous Med

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This article presents results of the investigation of the fluid dynamic behavior in CVD processed nickel metal foams. An experimental facility was developed to measure the single-phase permeability in nickel metal foams in Darcian flow regime. Data on permeability values of seven different nickel foam samples was obtained. The pore sizes of the foam were obtained with scanning electron microscope. By defining friction factor and Reynolds number based on the permeability length scale a correlation was obtained for the foam permeability in Darcian flow regime. The result from this study was compared with the correlations reported by other researchers, and was found to be in good agreement.

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Hydrodynamics of gas–liquid counter-current flow in solid foam packings

Cited by 101 publications

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Scalar transport in a milli-scale metal foam reactor

Scalar transport in a milli-scale metal foam reactor

Hydrodynamic Characterization of Nickel Metal Foam, Part 2: Effects of Pore Structure and Permeability

Hydrodynamic Characterization of Nickel Metal Foam, Part 1: Single-Phase Permeability

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