Abstract
An experimental investigation of dynamic liquid holdup and oxygen absorption mass transfer was carried out in a laboratory bioreactor packed with expanded clay balls. The column was operated with a cocurrent upflow of air and water at low Reynolds numbers. The data obtained for dynamic liquid holdup have been represented by a modified Stiegel-Shah relation with a relative mean error of 0.7%. For prediction of the oxygen mass transfer coefficient, an empirical correlation based on air and water mass superficial velocities has been proposed. It reproduced our experimental results with a relative mean error of 9%. Both correlations proposed in this study are valid for small packing spheres around 2.7 mm in diameter and Reynolds numbers varying for gas and liquid from 0.197 to 0.593 and from 3.875 to 9.315 respectively.
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