scholarly journals A twin-fluid injector for FCC feed injection

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Deepak Kumar ◽  
Tushar Sikroria ◽  
Kushari A ◽  
Pramod Kumar ◽  
Sriganesh G
Keyword(s):  
Droplet Size ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Liquid Flow ◽  
Liquid Flow Rate ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Product Yield ◽  
Droplet Velocity ◽  
Injection System ◽  
Airflow Rate ◽  
Air Flow Rate

In Fluidized Bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) process, hydrocarbon feed undergoes vapour phase cracking in presence of hot regenerated catalyst to produce valuable products like LPG, Gasoline and Diesel. FCC feed injection system is most critical hardware component of FCC unit in order to get desired product yield by minimizing the undesirable dry gas and coke yield. Typically, twin-fluid nozzles (hydrocarbon and stream) are used to atomize the feed. In the present study, a twin-fluid injector, with an internal impactor to minimize the droplet size and velocity, is designed, developed and characterized. The performance of the feeding injector was evaluated using water and air as operating fluids and the droplet size and velocity were measured 150 mm downstream of the injector tip using a PDPA system for different water and air flow rates. The average droplet size (D32) showed an increase while the droplet velocity remained almost constant with the increase in the liquid flow rate for a given flow rate of air, consistent with the increase in droplet size with decreasing air-liquid ratio for twin–fluid atomizers. But, for a given liquid flow rate, the droplet SMD decreased and the droplet velocity increased with increasing airflow rate, which can be attributed to the increase in overall kinetic energy due to the increase in air flow rate. The flow rate of liquid was seen to be independent of air flow rate unlike conventional twin-fluid atomizers. The droplet size was found to be a function of ALR and the local volume flux of the droplets was found to be a function of the liquid flow rate.

Numerical and experimental investigation on the air flow characteristics of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning module for a small electric vehicle

2019 ◽  
Vol 234 (6) ◽  
pp. 1597-1609
Author(s):  
Kang Li ◽  
Hao Gao ◽  
Peng Jia ◽  
Lin Su ◽  
Yidong Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Pump ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Airflow Rate ◽  
Positive Temperature ◽  
Air Flow Rate ◽  
Pump System

In electrical vehicles, replacing positive temperature coefficient heater as heat source with an air source heat pump could improve the driving range and decrease energy consumption in cold climate. Design of the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning module for heat pump system has a significant influence on its performance in each working mode. A newly designed heat pump heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning module was introduced in this paper. The air flow characteristics of the heat pump heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning module in four working modes were analyzed, and the air flow rate and wind resistance were obtained by numerical simulation. Experiments were also conducted for validating its airflow rate in each working mode. Results of these experiments show that some unfavorable phenomena such as flow maldistribution and vortex inside the heat pump heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning module exist, which could lead to insufficient utilization of the heat exchange area of heat exchangers and the generation of aerodynamic noise. Furthermore, the air flow rate of the original heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning module was also measured for comparison, and the designed heat pump heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning module shows nearly 15–20% decrease in each working mode.

Spray Droplet Size for Water and Paraffinic Oil Applied at Ultralow Volume

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Hanks ◽  
Chester G. McWhorter
Keyword(s):  
Droplet Size ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Liquid Flow ◽  
Liquid Flow Rate ◽  
Air Pressure ◽  
Water Droplets ◽  
Spray Droplet ◽  
Paraffinic Oil ◽  
Pressure Nozzle ◽  
Nozzle Type

Spray droplet size of water and paraffinic oil was affected by air pressure, nozzle type, and liquid flow rate when applied with an ultralow volume (ULV), air-assist sprayer. Volume median diameters of water were generally larger than oil at constant air pressure and liquid flow rate. Droplet size decreased as air pressure increased, but increased as liquid flow rate increased. Volume median diameters of water droplets ranged from 41 to 838μm and from 16 to 457μm with oil when atomized at air pressures ranging from 14 to 84 kPa. Relative spans ranged from 1.2 to 18.0 and 2.0 to 7.2 for water and oil, respectively.

Experimental Study of Solar Air Heating System Based on Unglazed Transpired Collector

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixin Gao ◽  
Hua Bai ◽  
Xiumu Fang
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Temperature Rise ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Heating System ◽  
Airflow Rate ◽  
Air Flow Rate ◽  
Air Heating ◽  
Collector Efficiency

An experimental rig was set up to test the thermal performance of a solar air heating system based on an unglazed transpired collector of 2.5 m2. The experiment was carried out at Harbin Institute of Technology in the city of Harbin, which is located in northeastern China, at latitude 45°41′ N and longitude 126°37′ E. The tests were spread over a number of days, in which the 4-day experimental data within the period were selected as the sample for analysis. Experimental results show that solar collector’s surface temperature and exit air temperature increase with increasing solar irradiation. The influence of ambient temperature on surface temperature and exit temperature is negligible. Temperature rise decreases with increasing air flow rate, while collector efficiency increases with increasing air flow rate. For an air flow rate of 100 m3/h in Test 1, the average air temperature rise and collector efficiency were 28.86°C and 72% respectively; for an air flow rate of 235 m3/h in Test 2, the average air temperature rise and collector efficiency were 11.52°C and 78% respectively. Higher airflow rate tends to operate the collector at lower surface temperature, which results in lower overall heat losses from the collector to the surroundings, therefore increasing airflow rate reduces air temperature rise and enhances the collector efficiency. The average efficiency of the experimental solar air heating system in the 4-day experiment period was 72%, 78%, 61%, and 72% respectively, which are higher than most conventional glazed flat-plate solar air collectors. With better coordination with architectural design at early stage in a project, this building-integrated solar air heating system can be both aesthetically and technically viable.

Characteristics of Mean Droplet Size Produced by Spinning Disk Atomizers

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Ahmed ◽  
M. S. Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Droplet Size ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Liquid Flow ◽  
Liquid Flow Rate ◽  
Sauter Mean Diameter ◽  
Disk Diameter ◽  
Downstream Distance ◽  
Spinning Disk ◽  
Mean Diameter ◽  
The Mean

Characteristics of mean droplet size of spray produced by spinning disk atomizers were experimentally investigated. The phase-doppler particle analyzer (PDPA) was used to measure the droplet size of water spray in the downstream distance along the spray trajectory. Effects of various operating conditions on the mean diameter had been studied. The studied variables were: the rotational speed in the range of 838 to 1677 rad/s (8,000–16,000 rpm), the liquid flow rate in the range of 0.56 to 2.8 × 10−6 m3/s (2–10 L/h), the disk diameter in the range of 0.04 to 0.12 m, and the downstream tangential distance along the spray trajectory of up to 0. 24 m. The Sauter mean diameter (d32) was used to represent the mean of generated spray droplet sizes. The results indicated that the Sauter mean diameter can be correlated with dimensionless groups, such as the Reynolds number, Weber number, flow coefficient, and the ratio of downstream distance to disk diameter. Based on this correlation, it was found that the Sauter mean diameter (d32) increases as the downstream tangential distance, and liquid flow rate increase. Similarly, a decrease of rotational speed and disk diameter results in an increase in the Sauter mean diameter (d32). A comparison between the developed correlation and correlations obtained by other researchers has been presented and discussed in detail.

scholarly journals Determination of Heat and Flow Characteristics in Spray Cooling with Rectangular Finned Heat Sink

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Altuğ Karabey ◽  
Kenan Yakut
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Taguchi Method ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Liquid Flow ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Liquid Flow Rate ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Spray Cooling ◽  
Air Flow Rate ◽  
Direction Distance

Spray cooling process has many parameters such as extended surface, angle of inclination, effect of gravity, diameter of nozzle, angle of spray, mass flux, geometry of cooled surface, thermal performance and critical heat flux of spray etc.   Many effective parameters to carry out the experiments with conventional test methods are both expensive and time consuming. As a solution in these circumstances, Taguchi method, which is one of the modern experimental design and optimization methods and very effective in solving such problems, was used in this study. Taguchi method, as well as being in effective to improve the quality of products, also gives the opportunity to achieve better results with much less experiment. Using Taguchi method, as well as to reach the target value exactly, the sensitivity of the design against uncontrollable factors is reduced to a minimum. Thus, the optimum tolerance range in cost and quality factors is determined. When compared to conventional experimental design methods, Taguchi method has many advantages. One of them is that the test costs are minimized and the deviation around the target is kept to a minimum while in bringing targeted level of the average value of performance.  Another advantage is that the obtained results in the laboratory can be obtained in the real production environment and also saved a time of production. Nowadays, the planning of the multi-factorial experiments can be provided with great flexibility and simplicity by Taguchi method. In these experiments with using rectangular pin fin heat sinks, the effects of the longitudinal and lateral distances of the consecutively arranged nozzle or diffuser-like fin pairs, widths of the fins, angle of fins, heights of fins, spraying time, air flow rate, liquid flow rate (ALR, the ratio of air-liquid flow rate) and the ratio of the nozzle-heat sink distance to the nozzle diameter (h/d) on heat and flow characteristics have been investigated by using Taguchi experimental design method. For this reason, characteristics of flow and heat transfer are considered separately. Nusselt number considered as performance statistic, L27(311) orthogonal array has been selected as an experimental design plan for the eleven parameters mentioned above. The Nusselt number was calculated by taking into account the characteristic length of heat sink and the optimized results were found to be fin width of 45 mm, fin angle of 45o, fin height of 15 mm, x direction distance between fins of 20 mm, y direction distance between fins of 20 mm, x direction distance between slices of 15 mm, y direction distances between slices of 20 mm, air flow rate of 10-3 m3/s, liquid flow rate of 5,83*10-6 m3/s, spraying time of 5 s and the ratio of the nozzle-heat sink distance to the nozzle diameter (h/d) of 667.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/ILASS2017.2017.4596

scholarly journals Pengaruh Laju Aliran Udara Terhadap Efisiensi Penyisihan Organik di dalam Air Lindi dengan Menggunakan Teknik Oksidasi Lanjut (O3/H2O2)

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 009-017
Author(s):  
Mohamad Rangga Sururi ◽  
Mayang Afi Fadiyah ◽  
Siti Ainun Saleh ◽  
Mila Dirgawati
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Dissolved Oxygen ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Colorimetric Method ◽  
Airflow Rate ◽  
Air Flow Rate ◽  
Leachate Treatment ◽  
Grab Sampling ◽  
Filter Disc

ABSTRACT Leachate has complex characteristics, and it is commonly processed biologically in the Leachate Treatment Plant (IPL) in Indonesia. However, as the landfill ages, the leachate becomes less biodegradable. An appropriate technique is needed to treat leachate at IPL, and one of the promising methods is advanced oxidation with O3/H2O2. This study examined the effect of air flow rate on the concentration of residual ozone (KSO) and its efficiency to remove organic compounds using the O3/H2O2 process. Leachate samples were collected as grab samples from TPA Sarimukti Bandung. As much as 1 L of leachate samples were placed in an ozone contactor equipped with a filter disc with a pore size of 100-160 µm. The dose of H2O2 was continuously added to 1.197 g/L. Compressor was used to provide airflow with variations of 2, 3, and 4 L/min. Dissolved Oxygen (DO) was measured to determine the concentration of residual ozone (KSO) and validated by examining KSO measurements with the Indigo colorimetric method. A strong relationship between KSO and DO (R2 = 0.99) was observed at an airflow rate of 4 L/min. The highest ozone mass transfer coefficient (KLa,O3) was recorded at a 4 L/minute flow rate with 0.0022 min-1 at 27 °C.  The best removal efficiency has occurred at the fastest air flow rate (4 L/min) with COD, and UV254 removal was 88.89% and 14.87%, respectively. Keywords: DO, flow variation, KSO, leachate, O3/H2O2, organic, mass transfer   ABSTRAK Karakteristik lindi sangatlah kompleks dan di Indonesia, Instalasi Pengolahan Lindi (IPL) pada umumnya menggunakan sistem pengolahan biologis. Namun demikian, seiring dengan pertambahan umur urugan sampah, lindi semakin tidak biodegradable. Teknik pengolahan tepat diperlukan untuk mengolah lindi di IPL. Salah satu teknik yang sering digunakan adalah oksidasi lanjut dengan O3/H2O2 dengan mentransferkan gas ozon ke dalam air lindi yang diukur sebagai Konsentrasi Sisa Ozon (KSO) dan menambahkan H2O2 untuk meningkatkan pembentukan OH? di dalam air.  Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh laju aliran udara terhadap KSO serta pengaruhnya terhadap efisiensi penyisihan senyawa organik pada proses O3/H2O2. Sampel lindi diambil secara grab sampling dari TPA Sarimukti Bandung. Sebanyak 1 L sampel ditempatkan pada kontaktor ozon yang dilengkapi filter disc dengan pori berukuran 100-160µm. Dosis H2O2 yang diberikan tetap sebesar 1,197 g/L. Udara dialirkan dengan air compressor dengan variasi debit udara 2, 3, dan 4 L/menit. Pada penelitian ini, pengukuran Dissolved Oxygen (DO) digunakan sebagai pendekatan untuk mengukur KSO. Validasi dilakukan dengan meneliti hubungan antara KSO dan DO dan pengukuran KSO dilakukan dengan metode indigo colorimetric method.  Hasil penelitian menunjukkan KSO dan DO memiliki hubungan yang kuat (R2 = 0,99) pada variasi aliran udara 4 L/menit. Laju aliran udara tercepat terjadi ketika nilai koefisien transfer masa ozon (KLa,O3) mencapai nilai tertinggi (0,0022 menit-1) pada suhu 27 oC. Hasil penelitian membuktikan efisiensi penyisihan COD (88,89%) dan UV254 (14,87%) tertinggi terjadi pada laju aliran udara tercepat selama 180 menit. Kata kunci: DO, aliran udara KSO, lindi, O3/H2O2, organik, transfer masa

scholarly journals PENGARUH MODIFIKASI BACKCUT SEAT VALVE DAN UNDERCUTSTEM TERHADAP EFISIENSI VOLUMETRIK PADA CYLINDER HEAD MESIN ASTRO 108 CC

KOMPUTEK ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Aldi Prasetiyo ◽  
Sudarno Sudarno ◽  
Yoga Arob Wicaksono
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Cylinder Head ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Volumetric Efficiency ◽  
Injection System ◽  
Fuel System ◽  
Air Flow Rate ◽  
Simple Modification ◽  
The Difference

As technology develops in the automotive world, more and more motor vehicle manufacturers are also applying the latest technologies, especially for vehicles sold in general. Call it, for example, the development of the fuel system, which was still a carburetor, now uses an injection system, from S.O.H.C to D.O.H.C. these technologies are useful for increasing volumetric efficiency. In this study, the researchers wanted to increase the volumetric efficiency of the Astro 108 cc engine by applying a simple modification, namely the inlet and exhaust that was modified with a 30 backcut on the valve, undercut system, and 4 angle valve jobs (30 , 45, 60 , 75 ). By applying these modifications to the Astro 108 cc engine, it can increase its volumetric efficiency, say at 2300 rpm with standard inlet and exhaust conditions producing an air flow rate of 0.000358 m3 / s and 0.000814 m3 / s, this data is obtained from pressure taking on the water box meter. The difference in flow occurs because the air that enters the inlet and exhaust is smoother due to the modifications made. With this flow rate, at 2300 rpm standard head produces a volumetric efficiency of 19.05712%, and 43.26364% with a modified head.

Assessing the influence of air speed and liquid flow rate on the droplet size and homogeneity in pneumatic spraying

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Balsari ◽  
Marco Grella ◽  
Paolo Marucco ◽  
Fabio Matta ◽  
Antonio Miranda-Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Droplet Size ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Liquid Flow ◽  
Liquid Flow Rate ◽  
Air Speed

EFFECT OF AIRFLOW ON MOISTURE REMOVAL OF ROTARY BIODRYING REACTORS

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (5-6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khajon Somsai ◽  
Tusanee Tondee ◽  
Somrat Kerdsuwan
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Energy Content ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Initial Moisture Content ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Airflow Rate ◽  
Moisture Removal ◽  
Air Flow Rate ◽  
Period 2

Biodrying is the process to reduce moisture from municipal solid waste (MSW) by using the heat from aerobic bio-degradation. The typical process parameters are aeration, temperature during the process, initial moisture of waste, and temperature and relative humidity of the inlet air. This study aimed to investigate the effects of air flow rate and the supplied direct airflow duration on the rotary biodrying process for drying the high initial moisture content households solid waste, allowing satisfied energy content biofuel. The MSW from the Karai subdistric, kratumban samutsakorn province were used as a substrate. Biodrying process was performed in 8 trails with various air volumes from 0.20 to 0.45 m3/hr.-kg dry weight (dw). It was found that the increased airflow rate was not linearly proportional to the weight loss. The hydrolytic stage period (2 days) before supplied high air flow in aerobic stage could more increase moisture removal efficiency for rotary biodrying than increase double air flow rate only. The end product was sufficiently homogeneous and heating values 18,024 – 24,260 kJ/kg. 

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