scholarly journals Mechanism of Particle Separation in a Cylindrical Cyclone Separator (2nd Report, Validation of Lagrangian Particle Tracking Method and Investigation on Detailed Particle Behaviour)

2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (795) ◽  
pp. 1903-1918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu AKIYAMA ◽  
Chisachi KATO ◽  
Daisuke KAWATE
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Yoshida ◽  
Shinichiro Uesawa

Abstract The radioactive aerosol removal equipment is used as one of the safety systems of nuclear reactors. In this equipment, microparticles of aerosol are removed through gas-liquid interfaces of two-phase flow. The mechanism related to the removal of microparticles through the gas-liquid interface is not precise; a numerical evaluation method of performance of aerosol removal equipment is not realized. Then, we have started to construct a numerical simulation method to simulate the removal of microparticles through gas-liquid interfaces. In this simulation method, a detailed two-phase flow simulation code TPFIT is used as the basis of this method. TPFIT adopts an advanced interface tracking method and can simulate interface movement and deformation directly. Also, to simulate the movement of particles, the Lagrangian particle tracking method is incorporated. By combining the interface tracking method, and the Lagrangian particle tracking method, the interaction between interfaces and microparticles can be simulated in detail. To solve the Lagrangian equations of particles, fluid properties and fluid velocity surrounding aerosol particles are evaluated by considering the relative position of particles and gas-liquid interface, to simulate particle movement near the interface. In this paper, we show an outline and preliminary results of this simulation method.


1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Lee ◽  
K. H. Kang ◽  
N. S. Cho

The effectiveness of two oil fences deployed in tandem to maximize the containment of oil is investigated. To assess the effectiveness of the tandem fences, the viscous flow field around the fences in tandem are analyzed numerically. Then, the trajectories of oil droplets which escaped beneath the fore fence are computed applying the Lagrangian particle-tracking method, to check under what conditions the droplet can be contained between the tandem fences. The validity of the calculated trajectories is checked experimentally by using spherical beads made of paraffin and droplets of kerosene, and the model fence of draft of 4 cm. The numerically predicted trajectories of the droplets show fairly good agreement with the experimental results. The method is applied to predict the motion of the weathered oil. It is shown, numerically, that most of the leaked oil can be trapped between tandem fences, when the distance between the fences is about 10 times the draft of the fore fence.


2021 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 110346
Author(s):  
Peter Manovski ◽  
Matteo Novara ◽  
Nagendra Karthik Depuru Mohan ◽  
Reinhard Geisler ◽  
Daniel Schanz ◽  
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