Effects of influent physicochemical characteristics on air dissolution, bubble size and rise velocity in dissolved air flotation: A review

N Rajapakse, M Zargar, T Sen, M Khiadani - Separation and Purification …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbubble (MB) aided clarification is applied in many industries due to its high efficiency,
high loading rate and compact unit size over most other conventional technologies …

A review on single bubble gas–liquid mass transfer

Y Bao, J Jia, S Tong, Z Gao, Z Cai - Chinese Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
It is common to empirically correlate volumetric mass transfer coefficient k L a for predicting
gas–liquid mass transfer in industrial applications, and the investigation of single bubble …

Drag coefficient fluctuation prediction of a single bubble rising in water

X Yan, Y Jia, L Wang, Y Cao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
The drag coefficient has a significant effect on the calculation of bubble motion. This paper
experimentally investigated the drag coefficient of a single bubble rising in deionized water …

Numerical investigation on the bubble rising dynamics in ratchet channels filled with viscoelastic liquids

Y Li, W Yuan, Q Ba, M Mei, W Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we investigated the dynamics of a bubble rising inside ratchet channels filled
with viscoelastic liquids by means of volume-of-fluid-based direct numerical simulations. The …

Experimental study of DNAPL displacement by a new densified polymer solution and upscaling problems of aqueous polymer flow in porous media

S Omirbekov, S Colombano, A Alamooti… - Journal of Contaminant …, 2023 - Elsevier
The remediation of DNAPL-contaminated soil with lower-density fluids is ineffective due to
the over-riding of displacing fluid. The densification of biopolymers is experimentally studied …

Bubble size and liquid-side mass transfer coefficient measurements in aerated stirred tank reactors with non-Newtonian liquids

V Cappello, C Plais, C Vial, F Augier - Chemical engineering science, 2020 - Elsevier
Oxygen transfer is a key element in aerobic fermentations, especially if the culture broth's
rheology is non-Newtonian, as in the case of cultures of filamentous fungi. Viscosity …

Rising bubbles in yield stress materials

WF Lopez, MF Naccache, PR de Souza Mendes - Journal of Rheology, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We present an experimental investigation of bubbles rising in elasto-viscoplastic media. The
effects of medium rheology and bubble size on the bubble velocity and shape are …

Solar still distillation enhancement through water surface perturbation

MA Porta-Gándara, JL Fernández-Zayas… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar still water production enhancement was measured in experimental single-slope basin-
type solar stills (BTSS) by perturbing the water surface of the still. The perturbation is …

Experimental analysis of the mass transfer coefficient and interfacial area in an aerated coaxial mixing system comprising a non-Newtonian solution

M Jamshidzadeh, F Ein-Mozaffari… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Volumetric mass transfer coefficient, k L a, bubble size, and interfacial area were
investigated in an aerated coaxial mixing system with an aspect ratio of 1.25 furnished with …

Numerical simulation of the behaviors of single bubble in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids

J Ji, S Li, P Wan, Z Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, the behaviors of single bubble in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids were
investigated using OpenFOAM. The volume-of-fluid method was used to capture the …