Multi-scale and multi-fractal analysis of pressure fluctuation in slurry bubble column bed reactor

Abstract

The Daubechies second order wavelet was applied to decompose pressure fluctuation signals with the gas flux varying from 0.18 to 0.90 m³/h and the solid mass fraction from 0 to 20% and scales 1–9 detail signals and the 9th scale approximation signals. The pressure signals were studied by multi-scale and R/S analysis method. Hurst analysis method was applied to analyze multi-fractal characteristics of different scale signals. The results show that the characteristics of mono-fractal under scale 1 and scale 2, and bi-fractal under scale 3–9 are effective in deducing the hydrodynamics in slurry bubbling flow system. The measured pressure signals are decomposed to micro-scale signals, meso-scale signals and macro-scale signals. Micro-scale and macro-scale signals are of mono-fractal characteristics, and meso-scale signals are of bi-fractal characteristics. By analyzing energy distribution of different scale signals, it is shown that pressure fluctuations mainly reflects meso-scale interaction between the particles and the bubble.

Keywords

pressure fluctuation / R/S analysis / multi-scale / multi-fractal / bubble column bed reactor

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