“Bubble Bunch” phenomenon in operation of a bubble column

• Authors: Dariush Bastani , Ali Baghaei , Amir Sarrafi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

While studying the operation of a rectangular bubble column in laboratory scale, it was observed that under certain circumstances tiny bubbles attach to larger bubbles without causing them to coalesce. In other words, bubbles with large diameters (d > 5 mm) swept tiny bubbles (d [...]

Keywords

EN

Bubble bunch; Bubble coalescence; Interfacial tension; Bubble columns; Interfacial area

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Chemistry
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 803-808

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2009

online

6 - 10 - 2009

Contributors

author

Dariush Bastani

• Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1455618181, Tehran, Iran

author

Ali Baghaei

• Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1455618181, Tehran, Iran

author

Amir Sarrafi

• Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, 76175, Kerman, Iran

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11532-009-0081-4