Yugang Reactor fills with air overtime?

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

Dissolve more CO2 per minute than the horizontal one you've made? I'm not sure, there's no easy way to know/calculate. Horizontal reactors are pretty efficient, but they're large. You might get similar efficiency with a vertical reactor, as long as you get the larger size available.

 

[Yugang]

Dissolve more CO2 per minute than the horizontal one you've made? I'm not sure, there's no easy way to know/calculate. Horizontal reactors are pretty efficient, but they're large. You might get similar efficiency with a vertical reactor, as long as you get the larger size available.

Actually I made a pretty convincing estimation in the main thread that a horizontal reactor will almost always be much more powerful than a vertical bubble reactor of same size.

The argument goes as follows. We calculate the water CO2 interface of a given size horizontal reactor. Then we would calculate how many bubbles we would need in a vertical reactor of same size, to provide the same interface and hence same CO2 absorption rate. The conclusion is a much higher number of bubbles than we usually see in any vertical reactor.

Hence, theoretically a vertical reactor could push equivalent flow of CO2, however in almost all practical cases it will be much less than the equivalent size horizontal reactor.

The relevant post with actual numbers is in the main thread.

Post in thread 'Horizontal CO2 Reactor - Yugang 鱼缸 Reactor'

Aug 9, 2023

Please do for the benefit of the members here.

So let’s have a look at the estimated CO2 absorption power of a vertical bubble reactor, compared to a pipe with same dimensions but then used as a horizontal reactor. The key point is that it is very plausible that the horizontal reactor gives a higher CO2 absorption surface, and that a simplified model will suffice to illustrate that.

If we would like to make an accurate measurement of the absorption surface of a vertical bubble reactor, we could take a couple of photos and for each photo account for the number of bubbles and...

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