Separation Science and Technology, Vol.54, No.4, 535-548, 2019
Dispersion of liquid-liquid phase by a jet-induced gas-liquid-liquid mixing column developed for separation of organic pollutants
This article presents the gas and liquid entrainment and its dispersion in a gas-liquid-liquid mixing column. The variations in phase entrainment is observed with the change in the paraffin liquid and kerosene volume fraction from 5% to 35% due to the increase in the flow resistance with increase in the effective viscosity of the liquid-liquid mixture. The degree of dispersion is enunciated based on the axial dispersion model and the flow resistance of the phases in the column. A correlation is proposed to interpret the entrainment of phase as a function of operating variables within the range of experimental conditions.