Abstract
Gas–liquid two-phase flow is widely used in many engineering fields, and bubble dynamics is of vital importance in optimizing the engineering design and operating parameters of various adsorptive bubble systems. The characteristics of gas–liquid two-phase (e.g., bubble size, shape, velocity, and trajectory) remain of interest because they give insight into the dynamics of the system. Bubble plumes are a transport phenomenon caused by the buoyancy of bubbles and are capable of generating large-scale convection. The surface flow generated by bubble plumes has been proposed to collect surface-floating substances (in particular, oil layers formed during large oil spills) to protect marine systems, rivers, and lakes. Furthermore, the surface flows generated by bubble plumes are important in various types of reactors, engineering processes, and industrial processes involving a free surface. The bubble parameters play an important role in generating the surface flow and eventually improving the flow performance. This paper studies the effects of temperature on bubble parameters and bubble motion to better understand the relationship between the various bubble parameters that control bubble motion and how they impact the formation of surface flow, with the ultimate goal of improving the efficiency of the generation of surface flow (i.e., rapidly generate a strong, high, and wide surface flow over the bubble-generation system), and to control the parameters of the surface flow, such as thickness, width, and velocity. Such flow depends on the gas flow rate, bubble size (mean bubble diameter), void fraction, bubble velocity, the distance between bubble generator and free surface (i.e., water height), and water temperature. The experiments were carried out to measure bubble parameters in a water column using the image visualization technique to determine their inter-relationships and improve the characteristics of surface flow. The data were obtained by processing visualized images of bubble flow structure for the different sections of the bubble regions, and the results confirm that temperature, bubble size, and gas flow rate significantly affect the flow structure and bubble parameters.
Highlights
Introduction published maps and institutional affilIn recent years, multifluid systems, including the gas injection technique, have been widely used and play an important role in many natural and industrial processes and many engineering fields such as materials; combustion; petroleum refining; chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering; cleaning, heat and mass transfer promoting, and high-pressure evaporators
Bubble velocity and bubble volume are important for studying bubble motion because they are closely related to a void fraction
The present paper is concerned with the characteristics of bubble parameters that induce surface flow, namely the gas volume flow rate, bubble size or mean bubble diameter, bubble velocity, void fraction, and internal two-phase flow structure of the bubble plume
Summary
Multifluid systems, including the gas injection technique (which is the most popular model in the field of bubble dynamics), have been widely used and play an important role in many natural and industrial processes and many engineering fields such as materials; combustion; petroleum refining; chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering; cleaning, heat and mass transfer promoting, and high-pressure evaporators. They have been used to improve chemical reactions, waste treatment, gas mixing, resolution, and other engineering processes [1,2,3,4,5].
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