2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2009.04.059
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Oxygen mass transfer to emulsions in a bubble column contactor

Abstract: Present work deals with oxygen mass transfer in an oil-in-water biphasic medium, employed in the production of ␥-decalactone by the biotransformation of methyl ricinoleate. A bubble column contactor was used to carry out the absorption experiments. The influence of operating conditions (gas flow-rate and organic phase composition) upon the gas-liquid interfacial area and mass transfer coefficient has been analysed and experimental results allow describing the mechanism of oxygen transfer from gas phase into th… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

4
9
0

Year Published

2011
2011
2017
2017

Publication Types

Select...
9

Relationship

2
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 36 publications
(13 citation statements)
references
References 22 publications
4
9
0
Order By: Relevance
“…nificant changes with regard to the values obtained for the carbon dioxide/water system, in agreement with other researches using different surfactants [15,16]. The hydrodynamic characterization of the gas-liquid systems in the present work includes the analysis of the bubble size distribution produced in the bubble column.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 87%
“…nificant changes with regard to the values obtained for the carbon dioxide/water system, in agreement with other researches using different surfactants [15,16]. The hydrodynamic characterization of the gas-liquid systems in the present work includes the analysis of the bubble size distribution produced in the bubble column.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 87%
“…At low operation time, the interfacial area increases slowly, and as time increases, interfacial area increases to a higher level, until the final value is achieved. This behaviour is in agreement with previous studies that have observed a higher importance of gas hold-up upon interfacial area than the effect caused by the Sauter mean diameter [24,25]. The gas hold-up increases slighter than the Sauter mean diameter behaviour, previously commented, and this fact explains the behaviour shown in Figure 6 for interfacial area.…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 93%
“…In contrast, the presence of a higher number of bubbles increases the gas hold-up in the liquid phase with a positive influence upon the gas-liquid interfacial area. Previous works [23,24] have concluded that the gas holdup is the most important parameter affecting the gas-liquid interfacial area, in agreement with Fig. 6.…”
Section: Absorption Ratesupporting
confidence: 90%