The influence of inclined plates on expansion behaviour of solid suspensions in a liquid fluidised bed — A computational fluid dynamics study |
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Authors: | E Doroodchi KP Galvin |
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Affiliation: | a Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia b Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | A significant increase in the particle sedimentation rate can be achieved by introducing inclined plates into conventional fluidised beds. In turn, high suspension densities are possible at fluidisation velocities in excess of the particle terminal velocity. The installation of the inclined plates, however, alters the dynamic characteristics of the fluidised bed, in particular, impacting upon the expansion behaviour of the suspension. In the present work a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach was employed to investigate the influence of inclined plates on the expansion behaviour of solids suspensions in liquid fluidised beds. The model is based on the solution of the Eulerian multiphase equations for up to two different particle sizes with a continuous phase of water. The momentum equations treat hindered settling behaviour via the inclusion of a volume fraction dependent drag law. The computational model was validated against our experimental data and compared with the predictions of a kinematic model developed in one of our earlier works. In general the predictions made by both the CFD and the kinematic models were found to be in good agreement with the experimental results. |
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Keywords: | Fluidization Inclined sedimentation Binary Sedimentation Computational fluid dynamics |
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