Potential Impact of Computational Techniques to Express the Solid Dynamics in (Gas-Liquid-Solid) Multiphase Reactors

Authors

  • Saadat Ullah Khan Suri Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, BUITEMS, Quetta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24949/njes.v11i2.504

Keywords:

Chaos Analysis, Volume of Fluid Method, Discrete Element Method and Eulerian- Eulerian Simulation.

Abstract

The computational fluid dynamics codes play a paramount role by demonstrating the system dynamics. The solid dynamics in a multiphase reactor can be analysed from (Chaos, Fractures, Clustering Discrete Element and Eulerian-Langrangian) simulation methods. The Chaos analysis is studied from pressure variation and time series. It includes the characterization of the flow region and their transition. The correlation dimension from the gas phase will describe the scale behaviour in the Chaos analysis. An effective flow model with definite investigation is obtained from this analysis. The flow regimes will be characterized by the structures variation. The volume of fluid and continuum surface force models elaborate on the fluidized bed bubble dynamics in the reactor. The bubbles formation and gasification process of (Fuel gas) are studied from parameters by including (Minimum fluidization velocity, Gas surface tension, Gas viscosity and Density). The results demonstrate the parameters which are influenced by (Particle density and Size). The investigation in time series signals for the biomass gasification process will be demonstrated from the fluidized bed hydrodynamics and system basics. The solid dynamics has been investigated by indicating a novel bubbling in biomass (Wood) in the gasification process time signals. The indication of complex signals in solid dynamics can be obtained from it simultaneously.

Author Biography

Saadat Ullah Khan Suri, Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, BUITEMS, Quetta

chemical engineering

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2018-12-01

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