Photo-Optical In-Situ Measurement of Drop Size Distributions

Title

Photo-Optical In-Situ Measurement of Drop Size Distributions: Applications in Research and Industry

 Author

Panckow, Robert P. (Technical University of Berlin; SOPAT GmbH)
Reinecke, Laura (Franken Filtertechnik KG)
Cuellar Soares, M.C. (TU Delft BT/Bioprocess Engineering)
Maa, Sebastian (SOPAT GmbH)

Date

2017-05-01

 Abstract

The exact knowledge of Drop Size Distributions (DSD) plays a major role in various fields of applications to control and optimize processes, as well as reduce waste. In the microbial production of advanced biofuels, oil droplets are produced under turbulent conditions in an aqueous medium containing many surface active components, making DSD knowledge essential for process optimization. The capability of a photo-optical measurement method for DSD measurement in fermentation broth and in plate separators is illustrated aiming at cost reduction in the microbial production of advanced biofuels. Measurements were carried out with model mixtures in a bioreactor, and at the inlet and outlet of a plate separator. In the bioreactor, the method was effective in detecting a broad range of droplet sizes and in differentiating other disperse components, e.g., microbial cells and gas bubbles. In the plate separator, photo-optical measurement effectively determined the influence of the varied parameters on the separation efficiency.


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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.2516/ogst/2017009

 ISSN

1294-4475

 Source

Oil & Gas Science & Technology: revue de l'Institut Francais du Petrole, 72 (3)

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2017 Robert P. Panckow, Laura Reinecke, M.C. Cuellar Soares, Sebastian Maa
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