Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Effect of Injection Volume on Biomass Particle Cyclone Venturi Dryer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guohai Jia ◽  
Guoshuai Tian ◽  
Zicheng Gao ◽  
Dan Huang ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Optimization Design ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Maximum Pressure ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Velocity Change ◽  
Injection Volume ◽  
Wood Debris

Abstract Cyclone venturi dryer is suitable for drying materials with large particle size and wide distribution. The working process of cyclone venturi dryer is a very complicated three-dimensional and turbulent motion, so it is difficult to be studied theoretically and experimentally. In order to study the internal flow characteristics of the biomass particle cyclone venturi dryer, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software was used to simulate the gas-solid two-phase flow field inside the cyclone venturi dryer. The continuous phase adopts the Realizable k-ε turbulence model and the particle phase is discrete. The effects of different injection volume on the pressure, velocity, and temperature fields inside a cyclone venturi dryer were analyzed. The results showed that the maximum pressure drop and velocity change inside the dryer were at the venturi pipe. The wet material of the cyclone venturi dryer was inhaled into the venturi contraction tube by the negative pressure formed after the highspeed airflow was ejected, thus the mixture was completed in the venturi throat. The wood debris material was mixed with the high-speed hot gas flow in the venturi throat and then sprayed into the diffusion pipe. In the diffusion pipe of venturi, the heat and mass transfer process of wet wood debris and heat flow in venturi diffusion tube was completed. It is in good agreement with the simulation results. This study can provide a reference for the optimization design of the related cyclone venturi dryer structure.

scholarly journals NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AIR – WATER FLOWS IN AN EVAPORATIVE CONDENSER

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. C. Acunha Jr ◽  
P. S. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Simple Algorithm ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Velocity Fields ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Equipment Manufacturer ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Water Behavior ◽  
Complex Phenomena

Evaporative condensers present a hard problem for numerical modeling because of the complex phenomena of heat and mass transfer outside of the bundle tubes in turbulent flows. The goal of this work is to study the air and water behavior inside an evaporative condenser operating with ammonia as the refrigerant fluid. A commercial CFD software package (FLUENT) is employed to predict the two-phase flow of air and water droplets in this equipment. The air flow is modeled as a continuous phase using the Eulerian approach while the droplets water flow is modeled as a disperse phase with Lagrangian approach. The coupling between pressure and velocity fields is performed by the SIMPLE algorithm. The pressure, velocity and temperature fields are used to perform qualitative analyses to identify functional aspects of the condenser, while the temperature and the relative humidity evolution contributed to verify the agreement between the results obtained with the numerical model and those presented by equipment manufacturer.

Impingement of an unsteady two-phase jet on unheated and heated flat plates

1993 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. 499-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
İ. Bedii Özdemir ◽  
J. H. Whitelaw
Keyword(s):  
Wall Temperature ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Size Class ◽  
Wall Jet ◽  
Flat Plates ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Secondary Atomization ◽  
Wall Jet Flow ◽  
The Impact

This paper is concerned with an experimental investigation of the oblique impingement of an unsteady, axisymmetric two-phase jet on heated surfaces. Size and velocity were measured simultaneously with a phase-Doppler velocimeter, and the spatial distributions over the wall jet were found to be correlated with the interfacial activities as inferred from vertical velocity measurements in the vicinity of the wall. These results are discussed together with size measurements by a laser-diffraction technique to quantify the effect of the approach conditions of the inflowing jet droplet field and wall temperature in relation to mechanisms of secondary atomization.Two mechanisms of secondary atomization were identified; the first did not involve direct wall contact and was due to the strain acting on the droplets by the continuous phase within the impingement region and was enhanced by thermal effects from the wall to cause breakup. The approaching velocity of the inflowing droplets to the plate was important to this process so that higher velocities increased the rate of strain within the impingement region and, consequently, the wall temperature promoting the secondary atomization shifted towards lower values. The second mechanism required direct wall contact and involved atomization of the film deposited on the wall by the impingement of the inflowing two-phase jet. With the penetration of high-speed inflowing droplets into the film, liquid mass was raised into the two-phase medium due to splashes from the film so that a new size class with larger droplets was generated. The resulting large droplets tended to stay close to the wall within the impingement region with small vertical velocitiesIn between the injections, the suspended droplet field above the film oscillated normal to the plate as a cloud so that the impact of large droplets on the film resulted in coalescence with the film and the ejection of smaller numbers of small droplets. The unsteady wall jet flow, caused by the arrival of the spray at the plate, swept the vertically oscillating droplet cloud radially outwards so that the resulting radial transport caused the dynamics of the unsteady film to be correlated with the size characteristics of the unsteady wall jet. Based on this phenomenological description, a radial droplet transport equation is derived.The correlation suggests that the secondary atomization with direct wall contact is the dominant process for the generation of a new size class within the wall flow and initiates the mutual interaction between the unsteady film and wall jet droplet field.

Two-Phase Wakes in Adiabatic Liquid-Gas Flow Around a Cylinder

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dohwan Kim ◽  
Matthew J. Rau
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Water Channel ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Around A Cylinder ◽  
High Heat Transfer

Abstract Small tubes and fins have long been used as methods to increase surface area for convective heat transfer in single-phase flow applications. As demands for high heat transfer effectiveness has increased, implementing evaporative phase-change heat transfer in conjunction with small fins, tubes, and surface structures in advanced heat exchanger and heat sink designs has become increasingly attractive. The complex two-phase flow that results from these configurations is poorly understood, particularly in how the gas phase interacts with the flow structure of the wake created by these bluff bodies. An experimental study of liquid-gas bubbly flow around a cylinder was performed to understand these complex flow physics. A 9.5 mm diameter cylinder was installed horizontally within a vertical water channel facility. A high-speed camera captured the movement of the liquid-gas mixture around the cylinder for a range of bubble sizes. Liquid Reynolds number, calculated based on the cylinder diameter, was varied approximately from 100 to 3000. Time-averaged probability of bubble presence was calculated to characterize the cylinder wake and its effects on the bubble motion. The influence of the liquid Reynolds number, superficial air velocity, and bubble size is discussed in the context of the observed two-phase flow patterns.

scholarly journals Dynamics of dry spots in the liquid film moved by the gas flow in the mini-channel under intensive local heating

2018 ◽  
Vol 194 ◽  
pp. 01059
Author(s):  
Egor Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Local Heating ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Heater Surface ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Heat Transfer Crisis ◽  
Typical Size ◽  
Dry Spot

Experimental studies of hydrodynamics and the heat transfer crisis were carried out for a two-phase stratified flow in a mini-channel with intensive heating from a heat source of 1x1 cm2. It has been established that as the heat flow increases, the total area of dry spots on the heater increases, but when a certain temperature of the heater surface reaches ≈100 °C, the area of dry spots begins to decrease. With the help of high-speed visualization (shooting speed 100000 frames per second), several stages of formation of a dry spot (a typical size of the order of 100 microns) were isolated. It was found that at a heat flux of 450 W/cm2 about 1 million dry spots per 1 second are formed and washed on the surface of the heater (1 cm2). The speed of the contact line when dry spot is forming reaches 10 m/s.

Inhomogeneous Multifluid Model for Prediction of Nonequilibrium Phase Transition and Droplet Dynamics

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Energy State ◽  
Momentum Conservation ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Algebraic Form ◽  
Droplet Dynamics ◽  
Thermal Fields ◽  
Volume Method

A pressure based Eulerian multifluid model for application to phase transition with droplet dynamics in transonic high-speed flows is described. It is implemented using an element-based finite-volume method, which is implicit in time and solves mass and momentum conservation across all phases via a coupled algebraic multigrid approach. The model emphasizes treatment of the condensed phases, with their respective velocity and thermal fields, in inertial nonequilibrium and metastable gas flow conditions. The droplet energy state is treated either in algebraic form or through transport equations depending on appropriate physical assumptions. Due to the complexity of the two-phase phenomena, the model is presented and validated by exploring phase transition and droplet dynamics in a turbine cascade geometry. The influence of droplet inertia on localized homogeneous nucleation is examined.

scholarly journals Physical and Mathematical Modeling of the Interaction of Water Droplets and High-Speed Gas Flow

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 11146
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Minko ◽  
Oleg Guskov ◽  
Konstantin Arefyev ◽  
Andrey Saveliev
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Droplet Breakup ◽  
Flow Conditions ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Gas Dynamic ◽  
Physical And Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Mach Numbers

Present work is devoted to physical and mathematical modeling of the secondary disintegration of a liquid jet and gas-dynamic breakup of droplets in high-speed air flows. In this work the analysis of the experiments of water droplet breakup in the supersonic flow with Mach numbers up to M = 3 was carried out. The influence of shock wave presence in the flow on the intensity of droplets gas-dynamic breakup is shown. A developed empirical model is presented. It allows to predict the distribution of droplet diameters and velocities depending on the gas flow conditions, as well as the physical properties of the liquid. The effect of the Weber and Reynolds numbers on the rate of droplets gas-dynamic breakup at various Mach numbers is shown. The obtained data can be useful in the development of mathematical models for the numerical simulation of two-phase flows in the combined Lagrange-Euler formulation.

scholarly journals MEASUREMENT OF TWO-PHASE GAS-LIQUID FLOW USING STANDARD AND SLOTTED ORIFICE

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Tomaszewska-Wach ◽  
Mariusz R. Rząsa ◽  
Marcin Majer
Keyword(s):  
Gas Flow ◽  
Liquid Mixture ◽  
Liquid Mixtures ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Liquid Droplets ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Flow Disturbances ◽  
Gas Measurement ◽  
Gas Liquid Flow

The differential pressure of gas measurement is very often used in industrial measurements. During the gas flow, liquid condensation often occurs. The result is that when measuring a gas flow, the gas-liquid mixture is essentially measured. Errors in the indications of measuring instruments are starting to appear due to a change in the properties of the continuous phase, which is gas. In addition, the appearance of liquid droplets leads to flow disturbances and pressure pulsations. Therefore, new methods and tools for measuring the flow of gas-liquid mixture are being sought. The work involves the use of slotted orifices for measuring gas-liquid mixtures. An analysis of the influence of the slotted orifice geometry on the measurement of the biphasic mixture stream was carried out. Standard orifice and three slotted orifices of various designs. The experiment included measuring the air flow with a small amount of water dispersed in the form of drops.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE TWO-PHASE FLOWS PARAMETERS ON THE EROSION WEAR OF THE GAS PIPELINES BENDS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (154) ◽  
pp. 240-248
Author(s):  
Ya. Doroshenko
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Particle Diameter ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Cfd Modeling ◽  
Erosion Wear ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Software Complex ◽  
Dispersed Particles

CFD modeling (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Lagrangian approach (model DPM (Discrete Phase Model)) in ANSYS Fluent R19.2 Academic software complex investigates the influence of twophase gas flow velocity, size and flow rate of dispersed particles on the location and magnitude of gas pipeline bends erosion wear. The motion of the continuous phase was modeled by the solution of the Navier-Stokes equation and the continuity of the closed two-parameter k-ε turbulence model with the corresponding initial and boundary conditions. The motion trajectories of the dispersed particles were determined by integrating the force equations acting on each particle. The erosion wear of gas pipeline bends was modeled using the Finney equation. The studies were performed for gas flow velocities at the inlet of the bend from 4 m/s to 19 m/s, the diameters of the dispersed particles 0.005 mm, 0.01 mm, 0.05 mm, 0.1 mm, 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm and the flow rate of the dispersed particles from 0.0002 kg/s to 0.0022 kg/s. Natural gas was selected as the continuous phase, and sand was dispersed. The geometry of each of the simulated taps and the pressure at the outlet of the bend were assumed to be the same. The simulation results were visualized in the postprocessor software complex by constructing erosion rate velocity fields on gas pipeline bends. From the visualized results it is determined that the largest influence on the location of the erosion wear of the pipeline bends has the diameter of the dispersed particles and the least concentration. The influence of the two-phase gas flow parameters on the location of the field of their maximum erosion wear is determined. The graphical dependences of the maximum velocity of erosion wear of gas pipeline bends on each of the studied parameters of the two-phase gas stream are constructed. It has been determined that the diameter of the dispersed particles and the velocity of the gas stream have the greatest influence on the erosion wear of the erosion of the bends. Keywords: bend, dispersed particle diameter, dispersed particle rate, dispersed phase, erosion wear, Finney equation, gas flow rate, Lagrange approach.

Compressibility Effects in the Gas Phase for Unsteady Annular Two-Phase Flow in a Microchannel

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru Herescu ◽  
Jeffrey S. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Flow Section ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Gas Liquid Flow

High speed microscopy experiments investigating two-phase (gas-liquid) flow behavior in capillary-scale systems, that is, systems where capillary forces are important relative to gravitational forces, have revealed a unique unsteady annular flow with periodic destabilization of the gas-liquid interface. Standing waves develop on the liquid film and grow into annular lobes similar with those observed in low-speed two-phase flow. The leading face of the lobe will decelerate and suddenly become normal to the wall of the capillary, suggesting the possibility of a shock wave in the gas phase at a downstream location from the minimum gas flow section. Visualization of the naturally occurring convergent-divergent nozzle-like structures as well as a discussion on the possibility of shock wave formation are presented.

Numerical Simulation of Particle-Gas Flow Through a Fixed Pipe, Using One-Way and Two-Way Coupling Methods

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Namazian ◽  
A. F. Najafi ◽  
S. M. Mousavian
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Fluid Velocity ◽  
Particle Volume Fraction ◽  
Stokes Number ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Turbulent Pipe Flow ◽  
Particle Volume ◽  
Two Phase

AbstractA numerical simulation of the particle-gas flow in a vertical turbulent pipe flow was conducted. The main objective of the present article is to investigate the effects of dispersed phase (particles) on continuous phase (gas). In so doing, two general forms of Eulerian-Lagrangian approaches namely, one-way (when the fluid flow is not affected by the presence of the particles) and two-way (when the particles exert a feedback force on the fluid) couplings were used to describe the equations of motion of the two-phase flow. Gas-phase velocities which are within the order of magnitude as that of particles, volume fraction, and particle Stokes number were calculated and the results were subsequently compared with the available experimental data. The simulated results show that when the particles are added, the fluid velocity is attenuated. With an increase in particle volume fraction, particle mass loading and Stokes number, velocity attenuation also increases. Moreover, the results indicate that an increase in particle Stokes number reduces the special limited particle volume fraction, according to which one-way coupling method yields plausible results. The results have also indicated that the significance of particle fluid interaction is not merely a function of volume fraction and particle Stokes number.

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