Liquid-Liquid Contactor Experiments for CFD Model Validation, FY12 Summary Report.

摘要

This report presents a summary of preliminary experiments performed in the latter half of FY12 using the capability of the Contactor Electrical Resistance Tomography (CERT) Facility. This facility includes the capability for multiphase measurements of flow in liquid-liquid contactors using ERT as well as high-speed imaging with the current test focus on an instrumented engineering-scale annular centrifugal contactor having a 5 inch rotor (CINC-V5). In addition, a smaller CINC-V2 (2 inch rotor) contactor was also added to the facility and made possible the exploration of equipment scaling for liquid-liquid operation. The purpose of the efforts during this current FY were to explore a range of flow conditions for multiphase operation to gain broad insight into observable trends and quantities after which detailed measurements will be made for specific controlled test conditions to provide data for validation of advanced computational fluid dynamics models which are being developed under a separate work package (FT-12AN030901). In FY13, this project and the CFD modeling project are to be combined into a single Work Package named Contactor Modeling and Validation Data.