Capturing CO2 from ambient air - David Keith

spray mass density [kg / ln(μm)]
10000
5000
initial (spray) distribution
S = 3.7
steady-state average
for adjusted E coal
S = 0.71
steady-state average for E coal = 1
S = 0.58
0
10 100 1000 10000
drop diameter [μm]
Figure 3.9: Initial and steady-state average size distributions of spray in CFSTR model of coalescence.
Surface area S, and total mass drop dramatically from the input spray. Ecoal is the probability of coalescence
given a collision (Ecoal = 1 implies every collision results in coalescence). S is the average surface of
the spray per unit volume of contactor in m 2 /m 3 . Input spray is the “average” distribution from Figure 3.6
(same as previous two figures) and “full-scale” spray density from Figure 3.7 (same as previous figure).
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