气固并流向上流动中颗粒聚集的机理

1 INTRODUCTION Cocurrent upward gas-solid flows are widely used in industrial situations such as circulating fluid- ized bed, fluid catalytic cracking and pneumatic transport. Due to its industrial relevance, many quan- titative experimental and numerical investigations have been carried out[1―4]. Investigations show that upward gas-solid flow always appears heterogenously structured and the distribution of particles is always non-uniform unless the solid phase is very dense or very dilut…

Mechanisms for Particle Clustering in Upward Gas-Solid Flows

Two-dimensional unsteady cocurrent upward gas-solid flows in the vertical channel are simulated and the mechanisms of particles accumulation are analyzed according to the simulation results. The gaseous turbulent flow is simulated using the large eddy simulation (LES) method and the solid phase is treated using the Lagrangian approach, and the motion of the gas and particles are coupled. The formation of clusters and the accumulation of particles near the wall in dense gas-solid flows are demonstrated even if the particle-particle collisions were ignored.It is found that a cluster grows up by capturing the particles in the dilute phase due to its lower vertical velocity. By this way the small size clusters can evolve to large-scale clusters. Due to the interaction of gas and particles, the large-scale vortices appear in the channel and the boundary layer separates from the wall, which results in very high particle concentration in the near wall region and a very large-scale cluster formed near the separation point.