Study on the solid-liquid mass transfer performance of suspension in
rotating packed bed
Abstract
This work presents the study on solid-liquid mass transfer performance
of suspension in a rotating packed bed (RPB). The calculation model of
solid-liquid mass transfer coefficient (ks) is deduced on the basis of
the mass conversation law. The ks in RPB is measured using the
suspension of cation exchange resin particle reaction with NaOH. The
effects of different operating parameters such as pre-dispersion time
(t), rotating speed (N), mesh packing thickness (w), liquid volume flow
rate (LT), and solid loading (e) are investigated. The results show that
the ks increases with the increase of N and w, and increases first and
then tends to remain constant with the increase of t and LT. However,
the e has no influence on ks. The obtained ks ranges from 1.00×10-5 m/s
to 2.60×10-4 m/s which is higher than that in microreactor (MR) under
the similar experimental conditions.