Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill

This study is mainly focused on the production of fine silica in an opposed fluidized bed air jet mill through numerical and experimental techniques. In this mill, fine grinding occurs through collisions between solid particles in the continuous air stream. The stages in numerical techniques incl...

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Autor principal: Munusamy, Sri Raj Rajeswari
Formato: Tesis
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://eprints.usm.my/46316/1/SRI%20RAJ%20RAJESWARI%20AP%20MUNUSAMY_HJ.pdf
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description This study is mainly focused on the production of fine silica in an opposed fluidized bed air jet mill through numerical and experimental techniques. In this mill, fine grinding occurs through collisions between solid particles in the continuous air stream. The stages in numerical techniques include the three-dimensional (3-D) modeling and simulations of the air jet mill using GAMBIT 2.3.16 and FLUENT 6.3 softwares. The major domain of the air jet mill and the nozzle parts consist of 144,237 elements of T-Grid mesh and 422 elements of Pave mesh respectively. The Eulerian Granular Model (EGM) approach with k-epsilon turbulence model and Syamlal-O’Brien drag function was adopted for modeling the air-solid flows in air jet mill. Validations of the CFD model with experimental and numerical results were made based on the mass output of silica from the jet mill. The mass difference within 11.50% to 19.97% indicates that the model is fairly suitable and satisfactory for simulations of fine grinding process. Variations in the operating variables of air jet mill influence the air-solid flow fields and the product characteristics. The air and solid velocities, �� and �� vary from 357.88 m/s to 509.86 m/s and 41.45 m/s to 57.82 m/s respectively, while the solid volume fractions, � � at the air jet mill’s pressure outlet are within 0.01 to 0.03.
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spelling usm.eprints-463162020-02-24T04:04:09Z http://eprints.usm.my/46316/ Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill Munusamy, Sri Raj Rajeswari T1-995 Technology(General) This study is mainly focused on the production of fine silica in an opposed fluidized bed air jet mill through numerical and experimental techniques. In this mill, fine grinding occurs through collisions between solid particles in the continuous air stream. The stages in numerical techniques include the three-dimensional (3-D) modeling and simulations of the air jet mill using GAMBIT 2.3.16 and FLUENT 6.3 softwares. The major domain of the air jet mill and the nozzle parts consist of 144,237 elements of T-Grid mesh and 422 elements of Pave mesh respectively. The Eulerian Granular Model (EGM) approach with k-epsilon turbulence model and Syamlal-O’Brien drag function was adopted for modeling the air-solid flows in air jet mill. Validations of the CFD model with experimental and numerical results were made based on the mass output of silica from the jet mill. The mass difference within 11.50% to 19.97% indicates that the model is fairly suitable and satisfactory for simulations of fine grinding process. Variations in the operating variables of air jet mill influence the air-solid flow fields and the product characteristics. The air and solid velocities, �� and �� vary from 357.88 m/s to 509.86 m/s and 41.45 m/s to 57.82 m/s respectively, while the solid volume fractions, � � at the air jet mill’s pressure outlet are within 0.01 to 0.03. 2011-11 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/46316/1/SRI%20RAJ%20RAJESWARI%20AP%20MUNUSAMY_HJ.pdf Munusamy, Sri Raj Rajeswari (2011) Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill
title Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill
title_full Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill
title_fullStr Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill
title_full_unstemmed Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill
title_short Numerical And Experimental Studies On Production Of Fine Silica In An Opposed Fluidized Bed Air Jet Mill
title_sort numerical and experimental studies on production of fine silica in an opposed fluidized bed air jet mill
topic T1-995 Technology(General)
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