Flow Structure Formation in High-velocity Gas-fluidized Beds

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  • Jie Li
  • J. A. M. Kuipers
چکیده

-The occurrence of heterogeneous flow structures in gas-particle flows seriously affects the gas–solid contacting and transport processes in high-velocity fluidized beds. A computational study, using a discrete particle method based on Molecular Dynamics techniques, has been carried out to explore the mechanisms underlying the cluster and the core/annulus structure formation. Based on energy budget analysis including work done by the drag force, kinetic energy, rotational energy, potential energy, and energy dissipation due to particle-particle and particle-wall collisions, the role of 1) gas-solid interaction and 2) inelastic collisions between the particles are elucidated. It is concluded that the competition between gas-solid interaction and particle-particle interaction determines the pattern formation in highvelocity gas-solid flows: if the gas-solid interaction (drag) dominates, a uniform flow structure prevails. Otherwise, a heterogeneous pattern exists, which could be induced by both particleparticle collisions and gas-solid interaction. Although both factors could cause the flow instability, the drag force is demonstrated to be the necessary condition to trigger the heterogeneous flow structure formation. Introduction The occurrence of heterogeneous flow structures in gas-particle flows seriously affects the quality of gas–solid contacting and transport processes in high velocity fluidized beds. Therefore, it has attracted interest from both academic and industrial researchers. In the last decade, great efforts have been made to understand this heterogeneous structure, including formation of the clusters and the core-annulus structure. Useful information on cluster shapes, size, internal structure and core region size etc. has been collected (Li et al., 1980; Horio, 1994; Sharma et al., 2000; Lackermeier et al., 2001). Particularly, it has been found that the system instability is closely related to the properties of the fluid-particle system. Systems with large fluidsolid density difference more easily form clusters (Grace and Tuot, 1979). However, owing to the complex and transient properties of dense gas-solid flows, the mechanism underlying the origin and evolution of the heterogeneous flow pattern have not been completely elucidated. Some researchers supposed that the coreannulus structure results from the wall effect, which slows down the gas phase and forms a swarm of particle clusters. However, there are indications (Hoomans, et al. 2000) that non-ideal particle-particle collisions cause formation of particle agglomerates and consequently lead to formation of a core-annulus flow structure. Furthermore, by employing discrete element simulation Helland et al. (2000) demonstrated that non-linear drag also leads to a heterogeneous flow structure. Paper for CFB-7 at Niagara Falls, May 5, 2002 2 In this paper, a computational study has been carried out to explore the mechanisms which control the cluster/dilute pattern formation by employing a discrete particle simulation approach (a “hard-sphere model” based on Molecular Dynamics). Particular attention was paid to the effect of 1) gas-solid interaction and 2) inelastic collisions between particles on pattern formation in high velocity gas-solid two-phase flows employing energy budget analysis to understand how the flow structures are related to these two phenomena. First, simulations were performed at conditions with different particle collisional properties to quantitatively understand collisional dissipation induced instability. Then, simulations with different gas phase properties (drag force), but zero collisional dissipation were carried out to explore the effect of gas-particle interaction on flow patterns. In addition, a system with strong collisional dissipation and enhanced gas-solid interaction (elevated pressure system) was studied to highlight whether there exists a necessary condition between those two instabilityinducing factors by which the heterogeneous flow structure is initialized. Theoretical background In our discrete particle model the gas phase is described by the volume-averaged Navier-Stokes equation, whereas the particles are described by the Newtonian equations of motion while taking particle-particle and particle-wall collisions into account. The original computer codes for solving these sets of equations were developed by Kuipers (1992) for the gas phase and Hoomans (1999) for the granular dynamics including both 2D and 3D geometries. Additional codes were developed in this study to enable energy analysis. Gas phase model Continuity equation gas phase: 0 ) ( ) ( = ⋅ ∇ + ∂ ∂ u g g ερ ερ t (1) Momentum equation gas phase:

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تاریخ انتشار 2001