污泥薄层干燥特性及动力学模型分析

对桐乡污水处理厂的污泥薄层干燥特性进行了研究,得到其在不同温度、厚度条件下半干化处理的干燥速率和失水曲线。结果表明,污泥的失水速率随着厚度减小、温度上升而增大。引入了干燥动力学模型,Midilli模型能够很好地模拟污泥的失水情况。污泥中湿分的有效扩散系数在3.383×10~(-10)~5.130×10~(-9)m~2/s,2.5 mm厚度的干燥活化能为1.664 kJ/mol,为实际的污泥处理系统的设计提供了依据。     

不同干燥因素对天然橡胶微波干燥过程的影响

使用动态称量微波干燥设备研究了不同微波功率密度、不同胶样厚度和不同初始含水率3种因素对湿天然橡胶微波干燥过程及表观质量的影响。结果表明,3种因素对湿天然橡胶微波干燥过程和胶样表观质量的影响较大;微波功率密度越大,失水速率就越大,干燥时间就越短,胶样易出现干燥发粘现象;胶样厚度越厚,失水速率越小,干燥时间就越长,易出现部分夹生和发粘现象;初始含水率越高,失水速率就越大,干燥时间就越长,胶样易出现部分发粘现象。微波干燥湿天然橡胶较为合适的微波功率密度、胶样厚度和初始含水率分别为30.14-34.2W/dm3,5~15mm和10%-20%。     

污泥表观干燥动力学研究

污泥表观干燥动力学研究是污泥处理的一个非常重要的方法。通过对5 mm厚度的污泥分别在五种不同温度(80、100、120、140和160℃)下进行实验对比,并进行动力学方程拟合。结果表明,干燥速率常数K是污泥干燥动力学研究中一个重要的参数,温度越高,则干燥速率越大。计算得到样品污泥活化能为19.2325 kJ/mol。     

含油污泥为黏结剂制型煤干燥过程研究

为提高干燥效率、优化干燥效果,采用以含油污泥为黏结剂,与粉煤掺混干燥制备型煤的方式对含油污泥进行资源化处理。研究了掺煤量、干燥风速、干燥温度和型煤粒径对干燥过程的影响,并得到含水率和干燥速率随时间变化曲线。结果表明,以含油污泥为黏结剂制型煤的干燥过程可分为三个阶段:升速阶段、等速阶段和降速阶段。掺煤量主要影响降速阶段,风速主要影响升速阶段,温度主要影响升速阶段和等速阶段,粒径主要影响降速阶段。掺煤量越大、风速越大、温度越高、粒径越小,则干燥速率就越大。试验筛选出最佳干燥条件:掺煤量为65%、风速为2.75m/s、温度为105℃、粒径为10mm。对最佳干燥条件下的干燥过程进行干燥动力学模型拟合,求解干燥方程,得出Page(Ⅱ)模型相关系数平方为0.991时,拟合效果较好,能够反应其干燥特性。     

城市污泥与木屑混合薄层干燥实验及动力学分析

角度研究了比,添加木通过对纯污泥和添加木屑的污泥进行薄层干燥对比实验,分别从混合比例、薄层厚度、干燥温度、风速木屑添加对污泥干燥特性的影响,并引入薄层模型对其干燥过程进行模拟。结果表明：与纯污泥干燥相屑后污泥干燥速率明显加快,且木屑添加比例越大、薄层越薄、干燥温度越高干燥速率越快,风速对干燥速率的影响不大;Wang—singh模型能很好的描述两种污泥薄层干燥,利用费克第二扩散定律导出的无限平板公式求出纯污泥和添加木屑的污泥在温度120℃～170℃时的有效扩散系数分别为6．13×10-6m／s～1．11×10-5m／s、1．07×10-5m／s～1．67×10-5m／s;由阿伦尼乌斯方程分别求得活化能为Es=16．67kJ／mol、Es=12．97kJ／mol。     

湿污泥颗粒的流化床干燥实验及模型

在鼓泡流化床内以河砂为干燥介质,对单颗粒湿污泥的流态化干燥特性进行实验研究,得到了流化床温度、污泥初始水分、污泥粒径及流化速度对干燥速率的影响规律：流化床温度及污泥粒径对干燥速率的影响都呈指数规律;污泥的水分越大,干燥速率越大;在鼓泡流化床流化速度达到2倍临界流化速度以上时,充分流化,流化速度再增大(2~5倍临界流化速度)对干燥速率没有明显影响. 在基本的扩散传质理论的基础上,利用实验数据回归得到湿污泥在鼓泡流化床内干燥的半经验模型,为流化床污泥干燥器的设计提供了基础数据和依据.     

不同加热功率下含油污泥的干燥

辽河油田的含油污泥含有大量的水分,为了更有效地进行油泥热解和减少热解过程中的能耗,需运用干燥技术处理油泥。实验考察了不同干燥功率对油泥干燥速率、湿分比的影响。实验结果表明:油泥干燥可以分成3个阶段,即恒速干燥阶段、第1降速干燥阶段和第2降速干燥阶段;加热功率越大,达到平衡含水质量分数所用的时间越短,恒速干燥速率越大。然后运用干燥方程求得干燥时间。最后运用热分析动力学对实验数据进行处理,得到干燥动力学的数学模型。模拟结果表明修正Page模型符合油泥干燥过程。     

酒精污泥在内热式振动流化床中的干燥特性研究

以干污泥颗粒为惰性粒子,采用内热式振动流化床对酒精污泥进行了干燥实验,考察了流化气速、进气温度、振动频率和内加热功率对污泥干燥特性的影响,分析了污泥湿含量和干燥速率的变化规律。结果表明,干燥速率随着流化气速、进气温度和内加热功率的增加而增加,随着振动频率增加呈先增长后降低的趋势。适度提高流化气速、进气温度、振动频率和内加热功率可以降低最终湿含量。将干燥过程分为降速I段和降速Ⅱ段,根据扩散传质理论,建立了内热式振动流化床中污泥干燥的数学模型,模型计算值和实测值的误差在20%以内,符合较好。实验结果为酒精污泥干燥过程的工业设计和操作提供了实验依据。     

污泥干燥特性及动力学模型分析

在80℃~160℃温度条件下,对5 mm厚度的污泥薄层进行干燥实验研究,得出污泥的干燥特性曲线。引入5种常用的污泥干燥动力学模型对污泥干燥数据进行拟合,研究表明Hasibuan and Daud模型拟合程度最高。利用Fick扩散模型,求解得出污泥样品的干燥扩散系数在2.51E-09 m2/s~8.85E-09 m2/s之间,而干燥扩散系数随着温度的升高而增大。应用Arrhenius方程求解,得到污泥的活化能Ea为19.739008 kJ/mol,指前因子D0为2.13247E-06 m2/s。     

污泥干燥特性及其模型

对污泥进行了干燥试验研究,得出含水率、干燥速率等基本特性曲线。采用多元线性回归对试验数据进行分析,建立了污泥干燥的数学模型,干燥模型与试验结果的比较表明了模型的准确性。通过试验以及模型结果的分析,探讨了干燥温度及颗粒粒径对污泥干燥特性的影响。结果表明:在干燥介质温度小于100℃时,污泥颗粒的粒径是干燥速率的主要影响因素,温度的影响效果较小,只有当干燥介质温度大于100℃时,温度对干燥速率才有较大的影响。对污泥低温干燥技术的开发具有一定的指导意义。     

Effect of sludge thickness on characteristics of ultrasonic assisted hot air drying sludge

Due to the stratification of sludge particles in the ultrasonic field, the acoustic interaction forces the particles to agglomerate on a plane perpendicular to the direction of ultrasonic propagation. Therefore, the thickness of sludge can significantly influence the characteristics of ultrasound-assisted hot air convective drying municipal sewage sludge. In this paper, the stratified aggregation phenomenon of sludge with different thicknesses was observed in the ultrasonic field using the experimental method. It was found that the stratification of the internal structure of sludge became more obvious with the increase of its thickness. The effects of ultrasound on the drying time and the drying rate of sludge with various thicknesses were studied. Meanwhile, the effective moisture diffusivity (D_eff) was analyzed. The experimental results demonstrated that the larger the sludge thickness, the longer the time length of the first falling rate stage and the promotion of the drying rate was worse when the ultrasonic power was less than 135 W. The situation was opposite at the constant rate stage. Among the sludge with the thicknesses of 5, 10, and 15 mm, the total drying time and energy consumption of the sludge with a thickness of 10 mm decreased the most substantially under the condition of ultrasonic power less than 90 W. The smaller the thickness of sludge is, the less obvious the effect of ultrasound on the effective moisture diffusivity, and vice versa.     

Numerical Study on Moisture Transfer in Ultrasound-Assisted Convective Drying Process of Sludge

A coupled heat and moisture transfer model for ultrasound-assisted convective drying process of sludge was established. In this model, the permeable flow caused by acoustic pressure gradient in sludge was considered. The pore structure variety in sludge with ultrasonic irradiation was microscopically studied, and the pore size distribution of sludge was described by fractal geometry. Based on the fractal characterization, the physical properties of sludge including permeability, porosity, and tortuosity factor were determined, and the effective moisture diffusion coefficient of sludge under ultrasonic irradiation was also derived considering the effects of ultrasonic excitation energy and thermal effect on migration rate of water molecule. The effects of ultrasonic energy density and convective air temperature on convective drying process of sludge were numerically analyzed. The results showed that the ultrasonic irradiation changes the pore size distribution in sludge, the sludge flocs are dispersed, and the connectivity of pore structure is improved. Ultrasonic treatment is favorable to accelerating the moisture transport in the convective drying process of sludge, and the ultrasonic influence on moisture transport in sludge intensifies gradually with the increase of acoustic energy density from 0.2 to 0.6 W/ml. Furthermore, it can be also found that the enhancement effect of ultrasound on the average drying rate of sludge is more obvious at the connective air temperature of 65°C than that at 40°C under the uniform acoustic energy density and air velocity of 1.5 m/s.     

Effective Diffusivities and Energy Consumption of Whole Fruit Chinese Jujube (Zizyphus jujuba Miller) in Microwave Drying

Microwave drying of whole fruit Chinese jujube was performed at 45, 90, and 135 W. Ten commonly used mathematical models of thin-layer drying were compared. The Midilli model was best in describing drying time dependency of product moisture ratios. The initial drying rate and drying rate constant are linearly proportional to microwave power level. An effective diffusivity model was presented and validated with the Renka-Cline algorithm. The model has very high predictive precision, suggested by the relative percentage error of 3.734% on average between the model and the Renka-Cline algorithm. The effective diffusivity was proved to be a linear function of microwave power level and a quadratic function of moisture content. Energy consumption in microwave drying of Chinese jujube decreased as microwave power increased from 45 to 135 W, but 90 W was adequate for high-quality products with less energy consumption.     

A study on air jet drying for water content reduction of sludge

An air jet drying system composed of a turbo blower, an air ejector and three stage cyclones is constructed to produce a dried powder through water content reduction of dewatered cake obtained from sludge treatment process. The air flow to be ventilated by the turbo blower forms a high speed flow field by passing through the air ejector and a circulative flow field by passing through the cyclones. Dewatered cake, 100 mm in size, is disintegrated by jet and collision through passing the air ejector and becomes fragmented with size no more than 2mm. These fragmented particles follow air flow and are dried as moisture is evaporated from particle surface. A powder composed of 1.6 mm spherical particles is produced from pilot scale equipment of 1 ton/hr under the conditions of air velocity, maximum flow rate and air temperature profile of 84 m/sec, 180 m³/min and 73-28 °C, respectively. The air dried powder with average water content of 49.8 wt% is recovered after drying the dewatered cake with water content of 83.3 wt% in a real operation, indicating 33.5 wt% decrease in water content. It is estimated that the power consumption of the air jet drying system requires 92 kWh/Ton to reduce the water content by 33.5 wt%, which is no more than a half against heat drying system to consume 164 kWh/ton.     

基于化学改性的脱水污泥低温热风干化特性

我国每年污泥总产量逐渐增加,在其处理过程中普遍对含水率要求较高。采用热泵技术进行污泥低温干化,是一种既节能高效又不受地域限制的方法。但由于污泥的低温热干化特性尚不清楚,本文将通过在恒温恒湿箱中分别控制温度和污泥粒径两个单一变量,探究低温下二者对干化速率的影响,用曲线拟合得到直观的变化规律;并使用自主设计的立式污泥干化台架,对比探究铁-钙-碳基调理污泥在低温干化和传统干化下的水分释放特性。结果表明即使在60～80℃下,干化速率随温度升高仍然明显加快,干化时间缩短量与温度升高量满足递减的2次拟合多项式;而干化时间随污泥颗粒质量的变化满足递增的3次拟合多项式,所得拟合关系式适用于多种污泥;铁-钙-碳基调理剂可以显著提高污泥干化性能,稻壳和CaO会增加污泥孔隙和热导率,且稻壳在低温干化前期效果更明显。     

Influence of the Applied Acoustic Energy on the Drying of Carrots and Lemon Peel

The application of power ultrasound could constitute a way of improving traditional convective drying systems. The different effects produced by the application of power ultrasound may influence the drying rate without provoking any significant increase in product temperature. Due to the fact that the effect of power ultrasound is product dependent, the aim of this work was to address the influence of the applied acoustic energy on the convective drying of carrot and lemon peel.

Convective drying kinetics of carrot cubes (side 8.5 mm) and lemon peel slabs (thickness 7 mm) were carried out at 40°C and 1 m/s by applying different levels of acoustic power density: 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 21, 25, 29, 33, and 37 (kW/m³). The application of power ultrasound during drying was carried out using an airborne ultrasonic transducer (21.7 kHz). Drying kinetics were described considering a diffusion model.

In both products, the application of power ultrasound improved the effective moisture diffusivity (D_e ). The improvement was linearly proportional to the applied acoustic power density. In the case of lemon peel, the effects of power ultrasound were found over all the range tested (0–37 kW/m³), whereas in the case of carrot, it was necessary to apply an acoustic power density of over 8–12 kW/m³ to be able to observe the influence. The more intense effect of acoustic energy in lemon peel drying may be explained by the fact that lemon peel is a more porous product than carrot.     

Moisture loss kinetics and microstructural changes in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) during conventional and ultrasonically assisted convective drying

The overall aim of this study was to assess the moisture loss kinetics and the structural changes induced by both conventional and ultrasonically assisted convective drying of eggplant tissue. Three sets of drying experiments (at 40 °C and 1 m/s) were carried out: conventional air drying and ultrasonically assisted drying at two different levels of applied ultrasonic power, 45 and 90 W. The microstructure of the dried samples was studied by scanning electron microscopy.The application of ultrasound during the convective drying of eggplant led to a significant reduction of the drying time. The ultrasonic effect was dependent on the power applied, thus, the higher the power, the faster the moisture loss. The microstructure of eggplant endocarp was greatly affected during conventional air drying, probably due to the long drying times. This microstructure was better preserved after the application of a moderate ultrasonic power (45 W), due to the shorter drying time and the mild mechanical effects of ultrasound on the endocarp cells.     

THIN-LAYER DRYING CHARACTERISTICS AND MODELING OF CELERY LEAVES UNDERGOING MICROWAVE TREATMENT

The effect of microwave drying on moisture content, moisture ratio, drying rate, drying time, and effective moisture diffusivity of celery leaves (Apium graveolens) was investigated. By increasing the microwave output power from 180 to 900 W the drying time decreased from 34 to 8 min; by increasing the sample amount from 25 to 100 g, the drying time increased from 25 to 49 min. To determine the kinetic parameters, the drying data were fitted to various models based on the ratios of the differences between the initial and final moisture contents and equilibrium moisture content versus drying time. Among the models proposed, the semi-empirical Midilli et al. model gave a better fit for all drying conditions applied. The activation energy was calculated using an exponential expression based on the Arrhenius equation. The relationship between the drying rate constant and effective moisture diffusivity was also estimated and gave a linear relationship.     

Modeling Microwave Vacuum Drying Kinetics and Moisture Diffusivity of Carrot Slices

Carrot slices of 3.5 mm thickness were dried in a laboratory microwave vacuum dryer at five different microwave power density levels of 2, 4.66, 7.33, 10, and 12.66 W/g and at three vacuum chamber pressure levels of 6.66, 19.98, and 33.3 kPa to 4–6% d.b. moisture content. Inside the dryer the sample holding plate was rotated with the speed of 4 rpm for uniform microwaves application. The drying rates were increased with the increase in microwave power density at all pressure levels and the Page model was found to be the most suitable model to predict the drying behavior of carrot slices at all process conditions. The Page model drying rate constant (k, min^?1) showed high correlation with microwave power density at constant pressure by a power law equation and showed a logarithmic relationship with the microwave power density and pressure. Similar to the drying rate constant, the average moisture diffusivity at constant pressure was found to be function of microwave power density by power law equation as well as was also dependent on the power density and pressure by a logarithmic relationship.