A Summer Internship Report on Image Processing of 2 D Bubble Column At Submitted by: Sagar Chawla, B.Tech. III year Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Supervisor: Prof. Milorad Dudukovic Start Date for Internship: 11 th May, 2015 End Date for Internship: 20 th July, 2015
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A
Summer Internship Report on
Image Processing of 2 D Bubble Column
At
Submitted by:
Sagar Chawla, B.Tech. III year
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Supervisor: Prof. Milorad Dudukovic
Start Date for Internship: 11th May, 2015
End Date for Internship: 20th July, 2015
Abstract:-
Multiphase flow is simultaneous flow of two different phases mainly gas and liquid phase. A
bubble column reactor is an example of the application of two phase flows. The movement of
bubble is a basic subject in gas-liquid two-phase flow research. In this report changes in the
properties of bubbles due to the change in flow rate of air of 2 Dimensional flat bubble column
has been studied using image processing techniques in ‘Matlab 2015a’. Multiple Images of
532x516 pixels were taken by high speed camera Dalsa CA d6- 0512W and stored as a grey
scale images in the computer by using EPIX XCAP lite 3.8 software. Experiment was performed
on two different flow rates 10 SCPH and 20 SCPH. Twenty five images were captured for each
flow rate. Image processing was done on the best of 15 images and results were calculated for
the same on each flow rate. It was observed that interfacial area, surface area and perimeter and
of bubbles increases as gas flow rate increases.
Introduction:-
Bubble columns are intensively used as multiphase and reactors in chemical, biochemical and
petrochemical industries. They provide several advantages during operation and maintenance
such as high heat and mass transfer rates, compactness and low operating and maintenance costs.
High speed visualization is a non contact method which does not interfere with the motion of
bubbles. There is a need to understand the properties of the bubble such as its size, shape and
interfacial area since they are the critical parameters in the reactor design and control. Mass
transfer is the key phenomenon in the chemical reactions taking place in the reactor, it is
important to estimate the mass transfer coefficients for design and scale-up of these reactors. In a
bubble column reactor the variation in mass transfer is primarily due to variations in the
interfacial area. Gas-liquid interfacial area of two dimension flat bubble column reactor is
calculated as length of bubbles per unit area of image (in pixels).A number of works has been
done to study the flow characteristics of gas-liquid flow in the bubble column.
Other Methods:-
Using a bubble column operated with continuous gas injection Becker et al. (1999) studied
bubble swarm motion (bubble plume). The measurements were focused on the dynamics of