1976 Volume 62 Issue 2 Pages 191-200
Experimental studies have been made in order to analyze the mass-transfer characteristics in the gas phase in the reactor used for chemical reactions between an impinging jet of gas and an inductively-stirred liquid iron. The methods which have been used for the experimental studies are (a) sublimation of naphthalene into a nitrogen stream, (b) evaporation of pure liquids into a nitrogen stream, and (c) absorption of ammonia from ammonia-nitrogen stream into water.
The results obtained are as follows;
1) Average Sherwood numbers in the region of H/d= (H/d) c are correlated by the equation
Sh=m (rs/d) -1Re0.66Sc0.5 (m=0.40±0.13),
and (H/d) c is correlated by the equation
(H/d) c=0.00464Re0.68 (rs/d) 1.5 exp (3.96 (d0/DT)) (exp (Sc)) /Sc,
where H is the distance from nozzle to diffusing substance, rs is radius of diffusing substance, d is inside diameter of nozzle, d0 is outside diameter of nozzle, DT is inside diameter of vertical wall, Sh=kGd/D, Re=duρ/μ, Sc=μ/ρD, kG is mass-transfer coefficient for gas phase, u is average velocity of gas in nozzle, ρis density of gas, and μ is viscosity of gas.
2) Average Sherwood numbers calculated from published data on the rate of decarburization are correlated by the equation
Sh=m′ (rs/d) -1Re0.66Sc0.5 (m′=0.23±0.07).