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Mass Transfer Around Gas Bubbles in Reacting Liquids

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Reactive Bubbly Flows

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Within this project, the mass transfer of single bubbles in an unconfined environment was investigated. Most published works with longer rising paths lack the three-dimensional resolution of the bubble interface while smaller systems lack the long-term effects appearing during the ascent. Here, two cameras were moved in real-time with the bubble allowing a three-dimensional resolution of the bubble for a long rising path. For validation purposes of the bubble dynamics, the ascent of inert bubbles was investigated in clean systems and, due to the chemical systems of interest within this project, in systems with surface active components (metal-based complexes and different ligands). Furthermore, for comparison with widely used Sherwood correlations, purely physical mass transfer of different gas types was investigated in the same systems confirming a significant time-depending influence of the surfactants not only on the bubble dynamics but on the mass transfer, as well. For chemical reaction enhanced mass transfer, CO2 in NaOHaq and NO in a nitrosyl-iron complex system with different ligands were investigated. The dependency of the Sherwood number on the Péclet number was confirmed and concentration dependent enhancement factors were determined. The results show a complex interaction of ligand-depending contamination kinetics. Bubble dynamics and reaction rates and the mass transfer can increase or decrease.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—priority program SPP1740 “Reactive Bubbly Flows” (237189010) for the project KR 1639/22-2 (256647858).

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Merker, D., Böhm, L., Kraume, M. (2021). Mass Transfer Around Gas Bubbles in Reacting Liquids. In: Schlüter, M., Bothe, D., Herres-Pawlis, S., Nieken, U. (eds) Reactive Bubbly Flows. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72361-3_11

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