Akiyoshi Oda

Effects of Carrier Gas Conditions on Concentration of Alcohol Aqueous Solution by Ultrasonic Atomization

The effects of carrier gas conditions on the concentration of ethanol by ultrasonic atomization are examined. With increasing height from vessel bottom to gas inlet and outlet, the ethanol content in the accompanied liquid increases and the flow rate of alcohol decreases. The ethanol content in the accompanied liquid becomes lower as the gas velocity becomes higher. The attachment of a demister is effective for the increase of the content in the accompanied liquid.

Analysis of packed distillation columns with a rate-based model

Multicomponent packed column distillation is simulated using a rate-based model and the simulation results are compared with the experimental results obtained from a 0.2 m diameter pilot-scale packed column. The simulation algorithm used is previously proposed by the authors, which based on an equation-tearing method for (6c+7) equations of one packing segment and the whole column is solved by an iterative segmentwise calculation with the overall normalized θ method for acceleration. The performance of two packings is examined by simulating the pilot-scale column experiments using the published correlations for estimating liquid and vapor phase mass transfer coefficients and an effective interfacial area.