Gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient of methane in bubble column reactor

Jaewon Lee; Muhammad Yasin; Shinyoung Park; In Seop Chang; Kyoung-Su Ha; Eun Yeol Lee; Jinwon Lee; Choongik Kim

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.32, No.6, 1060-1063, June, 2015

DOI10.1007/s11814-014-0341-7 Export Citation

Gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient of methane in bubble column reactor

Jaewon Lee, Muhammad Yasin¹, Shinyoung Park¹, In Seop Chang¹, Kyoung-Su Ha, Eun Yeol Lee², Jinwon Lee^†, and Choongik Kim^†

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, 1, Shinsoo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, Korea
¹School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 261, Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712, Korea
²Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Korea

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Biological conversion of methane gas has been attracting considerable recent interest. However, methanotropic bioreactor is limited by low solubility of methane gas in aqueous solution. Although a large mass transfer coefficient of methane in water could possibly overcome this limitation, no dissolved methane probe in aqueous environment is commercially available. We have developed a reactor enabling the measurement of aqueous phase methane concentration and mass transfer coefficient (kLa). The feasibility of the new reactor was demonstrated by measuring kLa values as a function of spinning rate of impeller and flow rate of methane gas. Especially, at spinning rate of 300 rpm and flow rate of 3.0 L/min, a large kLa value of 102.9 h.1 was obtained.

Keywords:Methane;Mass Transfer Coefficient;Bubble Column Reactor;Shale Gas

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