Hydrodynamics of organic and ionic liquids in a slurry bubble column reactor operated at elevated temperatures

The solids strongly influence the hydrodynamics but their effects are still not fully understood. Therefore, the behavior of solids was investigated in this work. The results indicate that small concentrations of fine particles reduce bubble coalescence and subsequently stabilize the homogeneous regime. However, the primary bubble size increases with the addition of solids. Furthermore, it has been shown that the gas holdup decreases with an increasing difference between particle and liquid density.