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Enhancement of Mass Transfer in the Fluidized Bed Electrode Reactors
1Division of Fine Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Kyungnam University, Masan, Korea 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, November 1999, 16(6), 843-847(5), 10.1007/BF02698363
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Abstract
With the view of developing the fluidized bed electrode system, mass transfer coefficient, overpotential distribution, and copper degradation have been observed in this investigation. Particles whose diameters were one of 327, 388, 510, 548, 750, and 960 mu m were fluidized by the 1,000 ppm copper sulfate electrolyte. This study used two types of the experimental reactor. One had 5x5.5 cm bed-dimension with various thickness in a rectangular side-by-side configuration; the other 3.2 cm bed-diameter with various height in a cylindrical flow-through configuration. Mass transfer coefficient increased with increasing particle diameter, and the optimum fluidization was obtained at the condition of bed porosity near 0.65. For processing a large fluidized bed reactor, the expansion of bed height at a distance between electrodes was found to be more effective than the enlargement of bed thickness between electrodes. By replacing a three-dimensional current-feeder with a plane feeder, degradation and residual concentration of copper ion in a batch recycling mode could be achieved to be higher than 99% and less than 5 mg/L, respectively.
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