Granular flow simulation using CFD has received a lot of attention in recent years. In such cases, CFD is either, coupled with Discrete Element Method (DEM) techniques for appropriate incorporation of inter-particle collisions, or the Eulerian CFD approach is used in which granular particles are treated as they were fluid. In the present study, a CFD analysis was performed...

There have been few studies modelling both flow and heat transfer in fluidised beds. The kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) has been used for flow prediction in the past without heat transfer modelling. In the present study, a two-fluid Eulerian–Eulerian formulation incorporating the KTGF was applied first to a tube-to-bed reactor with one immersed tube and compared with the results in the ...

A reliable description of dense gas–solid two-phase flows of Geldart A particles in gasfluidized beds at life-size scale is of great practical importance in process industries. The classical two-fluid model, based on the kinetic theory of granular flows (KTGF), provides a very promising theoretical framework for predicting large-scale gas–solid twophase flows. However, thus far the two fluid mo...

The numerical simulation of fully developed gas–solid flow in a horizontal pipe is done using the eulerian-eulerian approach, also known as two fluids modeling as both phases are treated as continuum and inter-penetrating continua. The solid phase stresses are modeled using kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF). The computed results for velocity profiles and pressure drop are compared with the...

The objective of this work is to show a procedure for mesh generation in a fluidized bed using large eddy simulations (LES) of a filtered two-fluid model. The experimental data were obtained by [1] in a laboratory fluidized bed. Results show that it is possible to use mesh with less cells as compared to RANS turbulence model with granular kinetic theory flow (KTGF). Also, the numerical results ...

A Lagrangian-Eulerian methodology is developed for the numerical simulation of a gas-solid reactive flow. The SO2-NOx Adsorption Process (SNAP) is taken as a test case. A three-dimensional time dependent simulation is performed. A notional particle based Monte-Carlo algorithm is used to solve the transported composition Probability Density Function (PDF) equations to determine the gas phase com...

The hydrodynamics and heat transfer of cylindrical gas-solid fluidized beds for polyolefin production was investigated with the two-fluid model (TFM) based on the kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF). It was found that the fluidized bed becomes more isothermal with increasing superficial gas velocity. This is mainly due to the increase of solids circulation and improvement in gas solid contac...

In this study, the multi-phase Eulerian–Eulerian two-fluid method (TFM) coupled with kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) was used to investigate hydrodynamics particle flows (Geldart Group B) in a lab-scale bubbling fluidized bed. The goal improve bubble behavior inside bed distribution an injected liquid, by increasing bubbles entering spray jet cavity and, thus, reduce formation wet agglom...

A 2D Euler-Euler multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model in conjunction with the kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) was applied to describe biomass pyrolysis a spouted bed reactor. The primary interest this work development CFD hydrodynamic reactor coupled for prediction product yields (gas, bio-oil, and char). is based on three parallel reactions formation products secondary re...

this study is concerned with the prediction of particles’ velocity in a dilute turbulent gas-solidboundary layer flow using a fully eulerian two-fluid model. the closures required for equationsdescribing the particulate phase are derived from the kinetic theory of granular flows. gas phaseturbulence is modeled by one-equation model and solid phase turbulence by mlh theory. resultsof one-way and...