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egpet i got a new project on designing of bubble column reactor, which i certainly hav e no idea how to deal with it... in tower the carbon dioxide is reacting with alkali water (NaOH+H2O) forming car bonic acid. The CO2 absorbing in alkali water is 1-5%. The remaining carbon diox ide would be in water. The carbonic acid then react with sodium hydroxide to for m sodium carbonate. Alkali has the PH of 11 to 12 .. which changes on being neutralization to 6 to 7 . This is a counter current operation. Gas is entering from bottom and alkali wate r from top.. the object is to find the design parameters and then 1. length of reactor 2. diameter of reactor 3. retention time for gas 4. liquid hold up 5. Gas hold up the given data is pressure difference in column is about 3 to 4 psi water flow rate 2 meter cube/hour 1 meter cube of water carrying 3 kg of alkali....