摘要：In this research, computational fluid dynamics was applied to model a laboratory reactor for the degumming of crude palm oil (CPO) involving immiscible liquid-liquid mixing and being controlled by mass transfer. The fluid mixing of CPO and phosphoric acid in the reactor was simulated using multiphase mixture model and standard κ-ε turbulence model in steady state mode. The simulation predicts the distributions of the drop diameter, the dispersed-phase relative velocity, the drop Reynolds number and the interfacial area density. The mass transfer coefficient from experimental work is correlated using the model as Sherwood numberShd= 0.02576Red0.673Sc0.431with R2being 0.91. Finally, the volumetric mass transfer coefficient was calculated and compared to the experiment result.
