Abstract
A pneumatic transport reactor can be used for continuous carbon capture processes using a dry sorbent because it can handle large quantities of flue gas. To design efficient reactors, it is necessary to understand the internal characteristics of a reactor with a complicated gas-solid flow. Computational fluid dynamics using an Eulerian-Eulerian approach was adopted to simulate gas-solid two-phase flow to better understand the gas-solid behaviors and heat transfer characteristics in a pneumatic transport reactor. Numerical simulations were used to analyze the pressure difference, solid mass flux, and heat transfer coefficient. The results showed that the gas-solid behavior was unstable and that localized particle flow affects the heat transfer characteristics. The degree of particle mixing near the solid return inlet was lower than that at greater heights within the reactor; in the inlet region, the heat transfer coefficient is not uniform in accordance with the non-uniformity of solid particle behavior.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5081-5087 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Nov 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Korea CCS R&D Center (Korea CCS 2020 Project) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning) in 2017 (KCRC-2014M1A8A1049330). This work also was supported by the Human Resources Development program (No. 20174030201720) of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering