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Title

CFD simulation of the influence of suspension section on the hydrodynamics of CFB riser

Authors

Wei Wang, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190Follow
Nan Zhang, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190
Jinghai Li, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190
Cenfan Liu, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science ; China Special Equipment Inspection and Research Institute, Beijing 100029

Conference Dates

May 22-27, 2016

Abstract

The gas-solid two-phase flow in a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) is affected by hydrodynamic factors (say, superficial gas velocity, solids flux, solids inventory) , material properties (say, particle diameter) and geometric factors such as the entry and exit configuration (1-5). For example, Li (5) found that the axial profile in a CFB is heavily dependent on the length of the suspension section, which refers to the part between the riser bottom and the recycle inlet of solids. The variation of the suspension section may result in exponentially decaying or S-shaped profiles. However, most of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, especially the 2D simulations, do not take into account this factor (6-8). In this work, we perform 3D, full-loop simulation of a CFB with different lengths of suspension section in the riser, as shown in Fig. 1. The simulation results reveal that the axial profiles in the riser with longer suspension section are more likely S-shaped, which is consistent with the literature (Fig. 2). This suggests a need of full-loop simulation of CFB to understand the complicated dependence of hydrodynamics on geometric factors.

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Recommended Citation

Wei Wang, Nan Zhang, Jinghai Li, and Cenfan Liu, "CFD simulation of the influence of suspension section on the hydrodynamics of CFB riser" in "Fluidization XV", Jamal Chaouki, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Franco Berruti, Wewstern University, Canada Xiaotao Bi, UBC, Canada Ray Cocco, PSRI Inc. USA Eds, ECI Symposium Series, (2016). https://dc.engconfintl.org/fluidization_xv/94