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Application of the double optic probe technique to distorted tumbling bubbles in aqueous or organic liquid

Hélène Chaumat
Anne-Marie Billet
Frédéric Augier
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Charles Mathieu
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The optic probe technique is widely used to investigate bubble reactors. To derive values of bubble local velocities and bubble local sizes, a specific signal treatment is usually applied under severe assumptions for bubble path and shape. However, in most industrial reactors, bubble motion is chaotic and no common shape can be assumed. In this work, the reliability of the signal treatment associated with the optic probe technique is examined for distorted and tumbling bubbles. A double-tip optic probe is settled in a glass tank and the rise of bubbles is filmed simultaneously. Several trains of bubbles are studied, interactions between bubbles being gradually increased. Referring to image analysis, several ways to derive mean bubble velocities from optic probe data have been compared. Crenels from front tipand rear tipra w signals are associated and individual bubble velocities are derived. Nevertheless, complete velocity distributions are difficult to obtain, as they depend on the choice of the time within which the bubble is searched on the second tip. Using a simpler approach it is shown that the most probable velocity, calculated through the raw signals inter-correlation, is a correct estimation of the average bubble velocity. Concerning bubble size, bubble chord distributions show too high values due to bubble distortion and deviation. A simplified estimation of bubble mean Sauter diameter, using the most reliable measurements only (i.e., local gas hold-up, local mean bubbling frequency, and most probable bubble velocity), was tested for highly distorted bubbles; this method was validated both in water and cyclohexane.
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hal-03600508 , version 1 (07-03-2022)

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Hélène Chaumat, Anne-Marie Billet, Frédéric Augier, Charles Mathieu, Henri Delmas. Application of the double optic probe technique to distorted tumbling bubbles in aqueous or organic liquid. Chemical Engineering Science, 2005, 6 (22), pp.6134 -6145. ⟨10.1016/j.ces.2005.04.018⟩. ⟨hal-03600508⟩
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