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US 4,162,970 AGranted
Injectors and their use in gassing liquids
AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMarko Zlokarnik
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AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMarko Zlokarnik
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In an injector for the dispersion of a gas into a liquid and comprising a gas inlet, a liquid inlet, and a mixing chamber communicating with said inlets and having an inlet and an outlet, the improvement wherein the inlet of said mixing chamber is substantially round in cross-section and the outlet is substantially slit-shaped, whereby the kinetic energy of propulsion can be utilized with high efficiency to produce very fine gas bubbles. Advantageously the cross-sectional area at the outlet of the mixing chamber is about 5 to 25 times the cross-sectional area of the liquid nozzle throat, the liquid nozzle has a throat diameter d diverging to its discharge at an angle of about 5.degree. to 10.degree., the mixing chamber beginning at a distance from about 1 to 3 d from the end of the inlet, the inlet of the mixing chamber being circular of a diameter of about 3 d, the mixing chamber having a length of about 5 d to 20 d, and the height of the slit being about 1 d. The injector is especially suited for use in treating liquid effluents and in fermentation processes.
In a process for intensifying mass transfer in a gas-liquid system by contacting a gas with a liquid utilizing the energy of a propulsion jet to produce very fine gas bubbles, the improvement which comprises passing a liquid through an injector comprising a propulsion jet nozzle, a housing thereabout and a mixing chamber communicating with said housing, said nozzle including a liquid inlet and a throat outlet directed toward the mixing chamber, said housing including a gas inlet, said mixing chamber communicating with said inlets and itself having a round inlet and a substantially slit-shaped outlet of about 5 to 25 times the cross-sectional area of the throat outlet, intimately contacting the gas with a liquid in the mixing chamber, the liquid velocity in the said chamber ranging from 5 to 30 meters per second, the ratio of the gas throughput in m.sub.N.sup.3 per hour to the propulsion jet throughput in m.sup.3 per hour ranging from about 1:1 to about 20:1.
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