Argonne National Laboratory Reports

This research was done as a support study for the SYNTHOIL process and other coal liquefaction processes being developed to produce clean liquid fuels from coal. The objective of this work is to obtain experimental data on flow characteristics for upward flow of gas-liquid-solid mixtures in vertical tubes simulating conditions in the SYNTHOIL process. Study of the transport phenomena of multiphase mixtures is of importance to many chemical engineering operations in general and to some other coal conversion processes in particular. A brief review of the application of this work to existing processes is presented. The first part of the program was devoted to the study of the flow characteristics of two-phase gas--liquid systems, and the second was devoted to the flow characteristics of gas-slurry mixtures