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JOURNAL OF OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 603-608Publisher
OCEAN UNIV CHINA
DOI: 10.1007/s11802-018-3397-x
Keywords
computational fluid dynamics; electrodialysis; fluid flow; spacer
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21276245, 21576249]
- Key Research and Development Program of Shan- dong Province [2015GSF117018]
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In this study, the effects of length-width ratio and diversion trench of the spacer on the fluid flow behavior in an electrodialyzer have been investigated through CFD simulation method. The relevant information, including the pressure drop, velocity vector distribution and shear stress distribution, demonstrates the importance of optimized design of the spacer in an electrodialysis process. The results show width of the diversion trench has a great effect on the fluid flow compared with length. Increase of the diversion trench width could strength the fluid flow, but also increase the pressure drop. Secondly, the dead zone of the fluid flow decreases with increase of length-width ratio of the spacer, but the pressure drop increases with the increase of length-width ratio of the spacer. So the appropriate length-width ratio of the space should be moderate.
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