The Effect of Air Injector on the Performance of Airlift

Abstract:

In order to investigate the air injection method on the performance of an airlift. For this purpose an air lift system with a riser 2000 mm long and 80 mm in diameter, was designed and tested. Seven different air injection methods were used at a constant submergence. The experimental results showed a marked effect on the airlift performance when operated with different air injection methods. The arrangement of five nozzles gives the best performance, and the one nozzle is the worst. Although the injection angle has a little effect on the airlift performance, but view the general conclusions as a whole, the best lifting efficiency can be obtained when the angle of the nozzle placed along the tangential direction of pipe wall is equal to 10º at a given air flow rate QG =37m3/h.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 516-517)
• Pages: 1022-1027
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.516-517.1022
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Dong Hu, Chuan Lin Tang, Feng Hua Zhang
• Keywords: Air Injector, Airlift, Injection Angle, Lifting Efficiency, Mass Flow of Solid Particles

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