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Although it was experimentally verified the microchannels with periodic expansion structures can effectively intensify the mass transfer of the slug flow, little research has focused on their geometric design. Hereon, a numerical simulation is conducted to evaluate the impact of microchannel geometry on the mass transfer of slug flow. The square expansion unit performs better than the triangular and circular ones. With the increase of the length, width, and number of the expansion units, and the width of the constriction between the adjacent expansions, the mass transfer performance shows a non-monotonic variation, that is an initial increase followed by a decrease. The underlying reasons are analyzed by evaluating the mixing inside and outside the droplet and the effective mass transfer area. At the preliminarily optimized geometry, a novel mass transfer path, in which not only the droplet caps but also the droplet body becomes the effective mass transfer area, is observed.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
ISSN: 0009-2509
Year: 2024
Volume: 299
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