Benchmarking a DEM‐CFD Model of an Optical Belt Sorter by Experimental Comparison

A DEM-CFD (discrete element method - computational fluid dynamics) model of an optical belt sorter was extensively compared with experiments a laboratory-scale to assess the model's accuracy. Brick and sand-lime brick were considered as materials. First, transport characteristics on conveyor belt, involving mass flow, lateral particle distribution proximity, compared. Second, sorting results benchmarked for varying mixture proportions at differing flows. It found that numerical is able reproduce experimental high