Authors: Bona Lu a, Wei Wang a, and Jinghai Li a
a State Key Laboratory of Multi-phase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Source: This paper was published in 2011, Volume 66, Issue 20 of Chemical Engineering Science.
Abstract: In gas–solid riser flows, meso-scale structures affect the overall performance significantly. The two-fluid model (TFM) with structure-dependent EMMS (energy-minimization multi-scale) drag coefficient has proved to allow grid-independent solutions of the effect of meso-scale structures, and succeeded in predicting riser flows with the Geldart A particles (Lu et al., 2009, Chem. Eng. Sci., 64: 3427–3447). In this paper, to investigate the effects of particle properties on these meso-scale structures, for all particle types, two-fluid modeling with and without consideration of meso-scale structures were performed and compared. Generally, the modeling with EMMS drag coefficient shows better results than without considering meso-scale structures, but their discrepancy decays with the Archimedes number.
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