Numerical simulations of particle deposition on super-heaters A fundamental study Oslo, 2010.02.16 Nils Erland L. Haugen
Introduction Main focus: Particle inertial impaction No thermophoresis, eddy diffusion or Brownian motions This work has been done under the NextGenBioWaste project
Simulations Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) are used No modeling No filtering All space and time scales are resolved Including the thin but important boundary layer around the cylinder The Pencil-Code 128 CPUs
The Stokes number
Particle impaction (0.01<St<0.3) Re=20 Re=420 Re=6600
Front side impaction efficiency
Front side impaction efficiency Classical impaction Boundary stopping Boundary interception
Back side impaction
GKS (MSWI in Schweinfurt, Germany) Super heater fluid specifications:
GKS particle impaction Re=20 Re=420 Re=1685
Impaction efficiency as function of particle diameter Three orders of magnitude
Impaction rate Particle mass density pr. bin (independent of bin size)
Conclusion DNS is required in order to resolve the important boundary layer Both the front and the back side impaction depends strongly on Reynolds number The total mass impaction rate at the super-heater of the GKS plant is totally dominated by particles larger than ~30 microns
Turbulence
Single cylinder vorticity Re=20 Re=420 Re=6600
Particle impaction (0.4<St<40) Re=20 Re=420 Re=6600
Alternative to the Stokes number