Influence of immersed surface shape on the heat transfer process and flow pattern in a fluidized bed using numerical simulation

This paper presents a 2-D numerical simulation of a freely bubbling fluidized bed with immersed surfaces, using the Computational Particle Fluid Dynamics (C P F D) model implemented in the Barracuda commercial software. The heat transfer coefficients obtained are compared with an experimental study...

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Autores: Córcoles Tendero, Juan Ignacio, Acosta Iborra, Antonio, Almendros Ibáñez, José Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/44483
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121621
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/44483
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computational particle fluid dynamic
Fluidized bed
Hydrodynamics
Immersed surface
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Sumario:This paper presents a 2-D numerical simulation of a freely bubbling fluidized bed with immersed surfaces, using the Computational Particle Fluid Dynamics (C P F D) model implemented in the Barracuda commercial software. The heat transfer coefficients obtained are compared with an experimental study available in the open literature and numerical simulations based on the two-fluid model approach performed by other authors. Two different immersed surfaces, representing spherical and cylindrical geometries were studied. The simulations results show different heat transfer mechanisms, depending on the angular position in the two immersed surface geometries studied. The time average heat transfer coefficient around the whole heat transfer surface were and lower than the experimental study, for the cylindrical and spherical surfaces, respectively. These differences are lower than the results obtained with the two-fluid model approach reported in the open literature. The numerical results indicate that CPFD-Barracuda is able to properly simulate the heat transfer and the dynamics of the bed in defluidized regions, such as on the top of an immersed surface, where the two-fluid model fails and overpredicts the heat transfer rate.