Abstract
A bubble column was used to study the improved thermal decomposition of NH4HCO3 in aqueous solution using a continuous flow of hot gas bubbles of optimum sizes (1-3 mm) produced via controlled bubble coalescence to maintain bubble size. The rapid transfer of heat from small, hot (dry) gas bubbles to the surrounding water, i.e. into a transient hot surface layer, was used as an effective and energy efficient method of decomposing ammonium bicarbonate in aqueous solution. It is shown that the continuous flow of (dry) hot gases, even at 275°C, only heat the aqueous solution in the bubble column to about 57°C, at which it was also established that NH4HCO3 has a negligible decomposition rate even with long-term exposure to this solution temperature. Hence, the effects observed appeared to be caused entirely by the effective collisions between the hot gas bubbles and the solute. It was also established that the use of high gas inlet temperatures can reduce the thermal energy requirement to only about 50% (i.e. about 575 kJ/L) of that reported in previous studies and less than 25% of solution boiling.
Highlights
This paper is concerned with optimising a range of applications that use water, be they desalination, sterilisation, reactions and more using a bubble column evaporator
Carbon dioxide and water was observed above 60 °C
The most striking of these we have developed are in desalination
Summary
This paper is concerned with optimising a range of applications that use water, be they desalination, sterilisation, reactions and more using a bubble column evaporator. Some of a wide range of other useful applications of the BCE10 are: a new method for the precise determination of enthalpies of vaporisation (ΔHvap) of concentrated salt solutions;[7,11] evaporative cooling;[8] a new method for thermal desalination;[12,13,14] a novel method for subboiling thermal sterilization;[7,15,16,17,18,19] a novel method for the low-temperature thermal decomposition of different solutes in aqueous solution;[3] a new approach to aqueous solute precipitation in a controlled manner.[20] The efficient removal of heavy metal ions in an ionspecific, ion-flotation process is a specially noteworthy advance.[21] In addition, a bubble column condenser has been designed for the production of high-quality water as condensate.[22,23,24]. A Study of the Bubble Column Evaporator Method for Improved Ammonium Bicarbonate Decomposition in Aqueous Solutions: Desalination and Other Techniques bonate at high inlet gas temperatures and a comparative study of energy cost was determined
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