Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1983, 48, 439-448
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19830439
The flow rate and the hold-up of solids under the counter-current flow of liquid phase in a vibrating plate column
Eva Klašková and Vladimír Rod
Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 165 02 Prague 6-Suchdol
Abstract
Flow rates and mean hold-ups of solids have been measured under the counter-current flow of water in a 50 mm in diameter vibrating perforated plate column. Experimental data have been described by a mathematical model expressing the specific flow rate of solids in dependence on the hold-up, terminal velocity of the particles, porosity of the plate, specific flow rate of the continuous phase and the frequency and amplitude of plate vibrations. It has been found that for systems exhibiting low particle terminal velocity the pumping effect of the plates may increase the flow rate of the dispersed phase to a value corresponding to the flow in the empty column.
