Foam Bed Reactor
ABSORPTION OF CO2 GAS IN FOAM-BED REACTOR
Submitted to
Ashok N. Bhaskarwar Department of Chemical Engg. IIT-DELHI
BY
ARIHANT GOYAL
IIT(BHU) Varanasi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I want to express my deep sense of gratitude to Professor A.N. Bhaskarwar Department of Chemical Engg., by whose inspiration and kind of support, I had the opportunity to conduct this study. Without his support this task couldn’t have been so easy for me. It was fortunate and unforgettable experience to work under his guidance. I am thankful to Mr. Suhorat in helping me with experiments. I am also thankful to the laboratory staff of the department for their help and assistance in lab. Herewith I would like to thank for all of these, who have directly and indirectly contributed to the realization of this study.
ARIHANT GOYAL
ABSTRACT
Carbon dioxide is one of the most important of greenhouse gases. Removal of carbon dioxide gases from large scale gaseous emissions as from thermal power plants, etc. is a real challenge. Foam bed reactor offers a novel method of removal of carbon dioxide gas. The present work concerns itself with analyses of removal of carbon dioxide gas by treating it with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in a semi batch foam-bed reactor, under a variety of conditions and experimental verification of the model. Reaction conditions were at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Experimentally studied variables are air flow rate, foam height, initial sodium hydroxide concentration, surfactants and surfactant concentration. The experimental results indicate that the conversion in the reactor increases with the increase in air flow rate, initial NaOH conc. The nature of surfactant has considerable effect on the foamability of solution and its amount also alters the conversion of reactant.
CONTENTS
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Introduction Literature Review Experimental Setup Theory Results and Discussion Conclusions Scope for future work
Submitted to
Ashok N. Bhaskarwar Department of Chemical Engg. IIT-DELHI
BY
ARIHANT GOYAL
IIT(BHU) Varanasi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I want to express my deep sense of gratitude to Professor A.N. Bhaskarwar Department of Chemical Engg., by whose inspiration and kind of support, I had the opportunity to conduct this study. Without his support this task couldn’t have been so easy for me. It was fortunate and unforgettable experience to work under his guidance. I am thankful to Mr. Suhorat in helping me with experiments. I am also thankful to the laboratory staff of the department for their help and assistance in lab. Herewith I would like to thank for all of these, who have directly and indirectly contributed to the realization of this study.
ARIHANT GOYAL
ABSTRACT
Carbon dioxide is one of the most important of greenhouse gases. Removal of carbon dioxide gases from large scale gaseous emissions as from thermal power plants, etc. is a real challenge. Foam bed reactor offers a novel method of removal of carbon dioxide gas. The present work concerns itself with analyses of removal of carbon dioxide gas by treating it with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution in a semi batch foam-bed reactor, under a variety of conditions and experimental verification of the model. Reaction conditions were at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Experimentally studied variables are air flow rate, foam height, initial sodium hydroxide concentration, surfactants and surfactant concentration. The experimental results indicate that the conversion in the reactor increases with the increase in air flow rate, initial NaOH conc. The nature of surfactant has considerable effect on the foamability of solution and its amount also alters the conversion of reactant.
CONTENTS
Sl. No. Topic Page No.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Introduction Literature Review Experimental Setup Theory Results and Discussion Conclusions Scope for future work