TY - JOUR N2 - Gas-liquid microreactors find an increasing range of applications both in production, and for chemical analysis. The most often employed flow regime in these microreactors is Taylor flow. The rate of absorption of gases in liquids depends on gas-side and liquid-side resistances. There are several publications about liquid-side mass transfer coefficients in Taylor flow, but the data about gas-side mass transfer coefficients are practically non existent. We analysed the problem of gas-side mass transfer resistance in Taylor flow and determined conditions, in which it may influence the overall mass transfer rate. Investigations were performed using numerical simulations. The influence of the gas diffusivity, gas viscosity, channel diameter, bubble length and gas bubble velocity has been determined. It was found that in some case the mass transfer resistances in both phases are comparable and the gas-side resistance may be significant. In such cases, neglecting the gas-side coefficient may lead to errors in the experimental data interpretation. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/84922/PDF/03-paper-Sobieszuk.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/84922 PY - 2014 IS - No 1 March EP - 45 DO - 10.2478/cpe-2014-0003 KW - Taylor flow KW - mass transfer coefficients KW - microreactor KW - CFD simulations A1 - Pohorecki, Ryszard A1 - Sobieszuk, Paweł A1 - Ilnicki, Filip PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee of Chemical and Process Engineering DA - 2014 T1 - Contribution of Liquid- and Gas-Side Mass Transfer Coefficients to Overall Mass Transfer Coefficient in Taylor Flow in a Microreactor SP - 35 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/84922 T2 - Chemical and Process Engineering ER -