Abstract: This work presents new results about the reliable identification of the main transition velocity Utrans-1 in different bubble columns (0.1 – 0.46 m in inner diameter) equipped with several perforated plate gas distributors. Two different gas-liquid systems (air-water and air-therminol LT) have been used. The most important finding in this work is that Utrans-1 (end of the homogeneous regime) occurs at 0.04 m·s-1 irrespective of the operating conditions studied. For the Utrans-1 identification, the following parameters have been used: Kolmogorov and reconstruction entropies, degree of randomness and information entropy.
