Concentration of Sugar Solution in a Bubble Column

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A bubble column is used to concentrate a dilute sugar solution in water. Set the dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperature of the inlet air stream (labeled and
in the diagram). The humidification of the air is assumed to be an adiabatic process. The air exiting the column is saturated (i.e. its relative humidity
is 100%). You can vary the weight fraction of the sugar in the dilute and concentrated liquid solutions. This Demonstration enables you to compute how many kilograms of air must enter the column to achieve the target exit concentration. To do this, assume as a basis 1 kg of sugar solution in the column. The volume of the inlet air is also calculated. Finally, selecting the "psychrometric data" tab lists all relevant thermal parameters for the two air streams:
Contributed by: Housam Binous and Ahmed Bellagi (October 2016)
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[1] R. M. Felder and R. W. Rousseau, Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, 3rd ed., New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
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