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| Author(s): |
Leonardo Machado da Rosa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Química |
| Defense date: | 2008-04-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Milton Mori;
Henry França Meier;
José Roberto Nunhez;
Maria das Graças Enrique da Silva;
Waldir Pedro Martignoni
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| Advisor: | Milton Mori |
| Abstract | |
The application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in industrial operations has been increased not only in the project of new equipments but also in the optimization of the existing ones. The present work shows a set of tridimensional two-phase and adiabatic conditions, using the two-fluids model for the calculation of gas-solids flow in a high-flux risers of two different geometries, one with 10m of height and 76mm of internal diameter, and the second with 18m of height and 50mm of internal diameter. The k-epsilon model was applied to consider the influence of turbulence over the gas phase. The four-lump and ten-lump schemes kinetic models were used to predict the catalytic cracking reactions in the two different reactors. The riser with 10m of height and 76 mm of internal diameter had two entrances, one for particles inlet and one for the organic materials. The size of mesh for this case was 584.000 control volumes. The second riser studied with geometry of 18m of height and 50mm of internal iameter had one entrance for vapor, one for organic materials, and a third for particles inlet. The mesh generated over this geometry was considered 650.000 control volumes. The numerical results of gas-solids dispersion flow in a high-flux were compared with the xperimental data from the work of P¨arssinen and Zhu (2001), the four lump scheme for he mass concentration of chemical species was compared with the work of (ALI et al., 997), and the ten lump scheme was compares with the work of NAYAK et al. (2005). The catalytic cracking reactions models show an important role in the prediction of all henomena present in the reactor. The simulated results show that the kinetics models are important not only because of the variation of the gas phase and the temperature profiles inside the reactor but also because these parameters interfere directly in the dynamic behavior of the gas-solid flows (AU) | |