Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1986, 51, 295-301
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19860295
On the automodel properties of the counter-current regurlarly stacked trickle bed columns
Andrzej Gierczyckia, Vladimír Staněkb, Petr Vychodilb, Vladimír Jiřičnýb, Jerzy Pikońa and Jan Čermákb
a Institute of Chemical Engineering, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland
b Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 165 02 Prague 6-Suchdol, Czechoslovakia
Abstract
An approach utilizing the automodel properties in describing the hydrodynamic behaviour of counter-current columns has been extended to regularly stacked beds. Two new kinds of the packing have been investigated: The so-called K-packing, developed in the German Democratic Republic and the Cellular packing, developed in Poland. The results of experiments have been presented in the form of plots of the normalized liquid hold-up, hp, versus the normalized liquid velocity, Ql, and two empirical correlations. A comparison with previous results with randomly packed counter-current trickle bed columns has also been made.
