Journal
POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 291, Issue -, Pages 506-521Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2015.11.045
Keywords
Fluidized bed; Pressure drop; Orientation; Experiments; DEM-CFD-approach; Arbitrary shaped particles
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- DFG [KR 3446/6-1]
- European Union
- Promotion of Student Research of the Program of Human Resources [VP1-3.1-SMM-01]
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A laboratory scale fluidized bed was examined experimentally and numerically involving differently sized wooden Geldart-D particle shapes. Simulations were performed with a coupled DEM-CFD approach, which involves a drag force model that realizes for the particle shape and orientation. To validate the drag force model and to learn more about the fluidization behavior of non-spherical particles the pressure drop, particle height and orientation distributions were analyzed. To gain comparable data from the experiments, a PTV-MATLAB script was developed to detect particles and determine their orientations and heights. Experimental and numerical results are in good agreement for most particle types; differences in the pressure drop can be allocated to mismatching particle heights or orientations. Differences in the particle height distribution are a result of particles that stack up in corners or close to the vessel walls. It was found that despite these local deviations the DEM-CFD can accurately reproduce the orientation behavior of elongated particles, which with increasing velocity align themselves with the flow. For elongated particles below a certain elongation ratio this behavior could not be observed, which was confirmed by both experiments and simulations. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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