Studies on frictional pressure drop of gas-non-Newtonian two-phase flow in a cocurrent downflow bubble column

摘要

An exclusive study has been done on experimental investigation of the two-phase frictional pressure drop with air-non-Newtonian liquid (CMC solutions) system in cocurrent downflow bubble column. The effects of gas and liquid flowrate on two-phase frictional pressure drop have been illustrated. An attempt has been made to fit the experimental two-phase frictional pressure drop data by modified Lockhart and Martinelli correlation and Aoki correlation. In another approach, friction factor method was adopted to correlate the experimental results in terms of dimensionless groups of the operating and system variables and the predicted values were found to be in good agreement with the experimental result. The experiments were performed in the bubbly flow regime because of its stability and uniformity. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.