Merrow Scientific has announced the UK availability of a gas-liquid contactor from WRK Design and Services.
The company said the contactor is suited for use in a range of engineering applications.
The downflow gas contactor used a novel design to produce intense mixing and rapid surface renewal.
In the co-current reactor, the high- velocity liquid jet inlet stream generates intense shear, producing a vigorously agitated gas-liquid dispersion in the upper section of the fully flooded column.
This shear and turbulence causes the break up of any gas pocket at the inlet and produces a high interfacial area in a small operating volume.
The design has a smaller operating volume than comparable equipment and no internal moving parts.
It offers improved reaction times, lower power consumption, and reduced capital and operating costs.
Suitable for batch, semi-continuous or continuous mode operation, the downflow gas contractor reactor has a high tolerance to particle content.
The design can be scaled up without loss in efficiency.
Many process industries require gas-liquid contacting in a range of applications, including absorption, stripping, flotation, ozone treatment, microbubble generation, oxidation, hydrogenation, effluent treatment, fermentation and mineral separation.
