scholarly journals Contributions to development of an inertial separation system for suspended solid particles in air

2021 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 06002
Author(s):  
Daniel Ion Matei ◽  
Marin Silviu Nan ◽  
Cristian Aron ◽  
Cristina Lapadusi-Macesaru

The separation of particles with big inertial mass transported in the air, is most often done with the help of cyclones, due to their resistance to wear at contact with abrasive particles. However, pneumatic conveying of heavy and abrasive granular material mixed with fines, are problematic even for cyclone hardened inlets. The paper studies a new method of dividing the main airflow in two airstreams, one further divided in more smaller streams to achieve the laminar regime, by using a corrugated shaped inlet. Thus generating an improvement in impact resistance, overall cyclone grade efficiency and decreasing pressure drop.

2021 ◽  
pp. 116992
Author(s):  
O. Orozovic ◽  
H. Rajabnia ◽  
A. Lavrinec ◽  
Y. Alkassar ◽  
M.H. Meylan ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Theresia Evila Purwanti Sri Rahayu ◽  
Rosita Dwityaningsih ◽  
Murni Handayani ◽  
Khoeruddin Witriansyah ◽  
Ayu Pramita

Wastewater resulted from the batik dying process is known for its environmentally hazardous substances including hazardous natural and synthetic organic matter, suspended particles, and hazardous metal. But in the micro and medium scale batik textile business, wastewater treatment is mostly not carried because it does not give benefit for the owner. Economical wastewater treatment constructions can be an alternative for the business owner for their free operational cost. Batik wastewater treatment ought to be carried out to meet government standards but most importantly to decrease hazardous pollutant’s concentrations so it does not harm the environment. This society service project aims to provide alternatively economical wastewater treatment for batik business owners by applying simples and cheapest yet effective treatment methods to reduce pollutant concentrations in wastewater. Methods applied in this project including sedimentation, filtration, and landfill-bioremediation. The laboratorium analysis result shows that sedimentation and filtration are significantly reduced total suspended solid particles in wastewater from 2450 to 100 mg/L in line with wastewater decoloring from dark blue to clear yellow.


Author(s):  
P. Bhattacharya ◽  
S. Nara ◽  
P. Vijayan ◽  
T. Tang ◽  
W. Lai ◽  
...  

A nanofluid is a fluid containing suspended solid particles, with sizes of the order of nanometers. The nanofluids are better conductors of heat than the base fluid itself. Therefore it is of interest to measure the effective thermal conductivity of such a nanofluid. We use temperature oscillation technique to measure the thermal conductivity of the nanofluid. However, first we evaluate the temperature oscillation technique as a tool to measure thermal conductivity of water. Then we validate our experimental setup by measuring the thermal conductivity of the aluminum oxide-water nanofluid and comparing our results with previously published work. Finally, we do a systematic series of measurements of the thermal conductivities of aluminum oxide-water nanofluids at various temperatures and explain the reasons behind the dependence of the enhancement in thermal conductivity of the nanofluid on temperature.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhagavatula Venkata Ramana Murthy

Fluidized beds are widely used in industries for mixing solid particles with liquids as the solid is vigorously agitated by the liquid passing through the bed and the mixing of the solid ensures that there are practically no temperature gradients in the bed even with exothermic or endothermic reactions (Mixing and the segregation in a liquid fluidized of particles with different sizes and densities", The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 1988). The violent motion of the solid particles also gives high heat transfer rates to the wall or to cooling tubes immersed in the bed. Because of the fluidity of the solid particles, it is easy to pass solid from one vessel to another. In the present experimental work, the relative density between solid and liquid phases on pressure drop under fluidized condition has been studied using the solid-liquid systems namely, glass beads-water, glass beads-kerosene, plastic beads-kerosene and diamond sugar-kerosene. Pressure drop - liquid velocity and void fraction - liquid velocity relationships have been found for all the mentioned solid-liquid systems under fluidized condition and results have been noted. The effect of the nature of the fluid on the minimum fluidization velocity and the pressure drop has been studied. In addition to the pressure drop studies, mass transfer studies have also been conducted with diamond sugar-water system with and without fluidization and results have been obtained. In addition to these, comparison of bed voidage, pressure drop and minimum fluidization velocity between denser and lighter liquids have been studied and the results have been obtained. Also, the value of rate of mass transfer with fluidization is compared that without fluidization for diamond sugar-water system and the results have been obtained.


Author(s):  
Yu. A. Taran ◽  
A. V. Kozlov ◽  
A. L. Taran

The aim of the work is to consider the mechanism of clogging the pores of the filter unit by small particles from the flow of filtrate inside them. Theoretical ideas about the process of filtering with the deposition of small particles from the filtrate on the pore walls and attribution of its fundamentals to restructuring from the original structure to the final structure allow to describe the process of clogging the pores using well studied concepts of known processes with phase transformations (in particular, crystallization). Based on this analogy and the approach to the description of the transformation of the "old" structure into a "new" one in time, using experimental data and their processing we calculated the rate of nucleation of the sediment centers (ωnucl), the linear (υlin) and volumetric rates of sediment plaques growth in the pores of the filter unit at different values of the process driving force, at different pressure difference in the system, and at different concentrations of solid particles in the suspension. Interpolation and extrapolation dependences were obtained for analyzing the mechanisms of sediments formation and growth for determining and calculating these (ωnucl, υlin) rates. Using the concepts of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to assess the influence of the driving forces we studied their influence (changes in the concentration of solid particles in the filtrate suspension and pressure drop across the filtering layer) on the dynamics of the filtration process. Using the data obtained it is possible to find the degree of clogging of through pores, which determines the filtration conditions, the filter septum type, and the filter overall dimensions.


Author(s):  
R. F. Mudde ◽  
C. Van Pijpen ◽  
R. Beugels

The PRIMIX helical static mixer has been investigated using numerical simulations. The flow is in the laminar regime (Re = 1 to 1000). The simulations concentrate on the pressure drop and on the use of particle tracking for mixing studies. For the pressure drop, experimental validation is provided. It is found that the pressure drop can be simulated with high accuracy for Re < 350. For higher Re-values no grid independent solution could be obtained and the experimental results no longer agree with those of the simulations. The simulated pressure drop results scaled to the empty pipe pressure drop, can be well summarized as K = 4.99 + Re/31.4. Using Particle Tracking it has been possible to reproduce literature data. However, it has been shown that the obtained results are rather sensitive to the choice of the time step. This limits the direct use of particle tracking techniques for studying the mixing of static mixers in the laminar regime.


1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Tabakoff ◽  
A. Hamed

Gas turbine engines operating in dusty environments are exposed to erosion and performance deterioration. In order to provide the basis for calculating the erosion and performance deterioration of turbines using pulverized coal, an investigation is undertaken to determine the three dimensional particle trajectories in a two stage turbine. The solution takes into account the influence of the variation in the three dimensional flow field. The change in particle momentum due to their collision with the turbine blades and casings is modeled using empirical equations derived from experimental Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) measurements. The results show the three dimensional trajectory characteristics of the solid particles relative to the turbine blades. The results also show that the particle distribution in the flow field are determined by particle-blade impacts. The results obtained from this study indicate the turbine blade locations which are subjected to more blade impacts and hence more erosion damage.


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