CFD simulation of single-phase heat transfer in a rotor-stator spinning disc reactor
| Autor: | Julia Kleiner, Johanna Fernengel, Florian Habla, Olaf Hinrichsen, Felix Rößler, Benjamin Münch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Materials science
business.industry Stator Rotor (electric) Process Chemistry and Technology General Chemical Engineering Turbulence modeling Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry Mechanics Heat transfer coefficient Computational fluid dynamics 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 010305 fluids & plasmas law.invention law 0103 physical sciences Heat transfer 0210 nano-technology business Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations Spinning |
| Zdroj: | Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification. 131:150-160 |
| ISSN: | 0255-2701 |
| Popis: | A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study on hydrodynamics and heat transfer in a rotor-stator spinning disc reactor (RSSDR), an inventive reactor technology engineered within the frame of process intensification, was performed with OpenFOAM®. This allows the investigation of locally resolved temperature profiles and heat transfer coefficients in the reactor gap, which is experimentally difficult for RSSDRs with small dimensions, while keeping computational costs low. The retrieved radial and tangential velocity and temperature profiles are in agreement with literature. Local stator-side heat transfer coefficients were determined, which increase with higher disc speeds and with increasing throughputs. Area-averaged heat transfer coefficients across the reactor gap were calculated and validated against experimental results performed on the setup simulated in this study; the numerical and experimental data are in qualitative agreement. This study presents the possibility to characterize an RSSDR in terms of hydrodynamics and heat transfer properties by means of a two-dimensional axisymmetric geometry and Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence modeling in OpenFOAM®. Expensive measurements, which are difficult to perform particularly for RSSDRs with small dimensions, could thus be avoided, simulating industrial applications at the conditions of interest and designing the RSSDR setup accordingly. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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