Identification of Various Regime Transitions in Gas-Liquid-(Solid) Bubble Columns Based On Chaos and Statistical Analyses of CARPT, CT, Gamma Densitometry, Optical Probe and Differential Pressure Data

The identification of various flow regime transitions in both gas-liquid and slurry bubble columns is a very important issue because different mass and heat transfers as well as mixing characteristics are observed in each flow regime. The flow regime transitions will be identified by applying both the chaos theory and statistics to Computer Automated Radioactive Particle Tracking, Computed Tomography and Gamma Densitometry data which will be taken at Washington University in St. Louis.