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Simulation of fine particle formation by precipitation using computational fluid dynamics
Author(s) -
Piton Damien,
Fox Rodney O.,
Marcant Bruno
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450780516
Subject(s) - computational fluid dynamics , micromixing , turbulence , mechanics , fluent , mixing (physics) , turbulence kinetic energy , precipitation , dissipation , fluid dynamics , materials science , thermodynamics , physics , meteorology , viscosity , quantum mechanics
The 4‐environment generalized micromixing (4‐EGM) model is applied to describe turbulent mixing and precipitation of barium sulfate in a tubular reactor. The model is implemented in the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software Fluent. The CFD code is first used to solve for the hydrodynamic fields (velocity, turbulence kinetic energy, turbulent energy dissipation). The species concentrations and moments of the crystal size distribution (CSD) are then computed using user‐defined transport equations. CFD simulations are performed for the tubular reactor used in an earlier experimental study of barium sulfate precipitation. The 4‐EGM CFD results are shown to compare favourably to CFD results found using the presumed beta PDF model. The latter has previously been shown to yield good agreement with experimental data for the mean crystal size at the outlet of the tubular reactor.