WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics
Print ISSN: 1991-8747, E-ISSN: 2224-3429
Volume 11, 2016
Experimental and Numerical Study of Velocity Profiles in FGD Reactor
Authors: , ,
Abstract: This article describes the investigation of velocity fields inside the flue gas desulfurization reactor. This reactor is self-constructed for using as experimental verification tool in research of modeling the desulfurization process. During the experimental study the velocity field at the inlet of the reactor and inside the spray zone were measured. Obtained values of velocity at the inlet were used to set boundary conditions for CFD. For CFD modelling of the flow inside the reactor software OpenFOAM with its utilities was used. CAD model of the reactor was edited to the simplified geometry of fluid inside and several different computational meshes with different element size were created. After that CFD simulations were performed to study the effect of mesh size to results of simulations (velocity fields). At the end results obtained from experiments and from CFD were compared. Based on the comparison the requirements for the computational mesh and CFD solver parameters to gain good agreement with the real state were specified.
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Pages: 148-153
WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1991-8747 / 2224-3429, Volume 11, 2016, Art. #19