The mass transfer coefficient for oxygen reacting with a carbon particle in a fluidized or packed bed
The mass transfer coefficient for oxygen reacting with a carbon particle in a fluidized or packed bed
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DOI:
10.1016/s0010-2180(99)00178-9
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发表时间:
2000-06
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
A. Hayhurst
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作者:
A. Hayhurst
Simple models for the burning of either a single carbon or a porous coal char particle are reconsidered, because combustion in, for example, a fluidized bed is analyzed using such models. First, equimolar counterdiffusion of O2towards the particle and also of the sole product, CO2, away from it is considered. Next, CO is considered to be the only product of combustion (as in a fluidized bed), so the chemistry requires a nonzero net flux of gases near such a burning particle. This leads to the general conclusion that the Sherwood number (dkg/D), giving kg, the effective mass transfer coefficient, depends on the stoichiometry of the reactions occurring at a carbon sphere of diameter d. The important parameter is in fact ShEMCD, the Sherwood number for there being equimolar counterdiffusion (of reactants and products) near the reacting particle. Thus ShEMCDis given by the well-known statement ShEMCD= 2.0 + 0.69 Re1/2Sc1/3for air flowing over a single isolated spherical particle, with which it reacts. In general, the actual Sherwood number (which gives kg) does not equal ShEMCD; the ratio (Sh/ShEMCD) is shown to depend on (i) the change in the number of moles (in the fluid) caused by the chemical reaction and (ii) the concentration of reactant in the fluid. Consequently, if carbon oxidizes in Cs+ 1/2 O2→ CO, the effect is to diminish kgas derived from ShEMCDby a factor (1 + y)logm, the logarithmic mean of (1 + yb) and (1 + ys), where yband ysare the mole fractions of O2in the bulk fluid and at the solid’s surface, respectively. In this particular case (Sh/ShEMCD) = 1/(1 + y)logm. If the CO oxidizes around the burning carbon particle, it is important to know the thickness of the mass transfer film. For a fluidized or packed bed, the general empirical correlation for equimolar mass transfer ShEMCD= Sho+ αRe1/2(Shoand α are constants) can always be rewritten as ShEMCD= Sho{1 + (d/2)/δ}, where δ is the mean thickness of the mass transfer film. This means that ShEMCD= 2 + d/δ = Nu for one single isolated sphere reacting with a species in a flowing fluid. Thus the effect of forced convection is to increase ShEMCDby reducing δ from infinity at Re = O to a finite value with Re > O. Finally, the magnitude of δ is calculated and compared with the thickness of a two-film model for the combustion of a carbon sphere and also of a liquid droplet.