The injection of air-water mixtures through two-phase jets is widely used for artificial aeration in tanks and water bodies. In this study, experiments were conducted to investigate mass transfer induced by such jets in an aeration tank. The results provided standard oxygen transfer efficiencies ranging from about 5 to 9%. Combining the results obtained here with those from previous investigations allowed to generate dimensionless correlations for the mass transfer coefficient as a function of the gas volume fraction and the densimetric Froude number. Finally, the results were applied to practical situations involving two-phase jet aeration systems.
aeration; bubbles; multiphase flow; two-phase jets
