Abstract
Experiments were conducted on the oxygen transfer coefficient, kLa20, through surface aeration in geometrically similar square tanks, with a rotor of diameter D fitted with six flat blades. An optimal geometric similarity of various linear dimensions, which produced maximum kLa20 for any rotational speed of rotor N by an earlier study, was maintained. A simulation equation uniquely correlating k = kLa20(ν/g2)1/3 (ν and g are kinematic viscosity of water and gravitational constant, respectively), and a parameter governing the theoretical power per unit volume, X = N3D2/(g4/3ν1/3), is developed. Such a simulation equation can be used to predict maximum k for any N in any size of such geometrically similar square tanks. An example illustrating the application of results is presented. Also, it has been established that neither the Reynolds criterion nor the Froude criterion is singularly valid to simulate either k or K = kLa20/N, simultaneously in all the sizes of tanks, even through they are geometrically similar. Occurrence of “scale effects” due to the Reynolds and the Froude laws of similitude on both k and K are also evaluated.
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