K. Amila Chandra
Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences – University College of Southeast Norway, Post box 235, N-3603 Kongsberg, Norway
W.K. Hiromi Ariyaratne
Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences – University College of Southeast Norway, Post box 235, N-3603 Kongsberg, Norway
Morten C. Melaaen
Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences – University College of Southeast Norway, Post box 235, N-3603 Kongsberg, Norway
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp17142639Published in: Proceedings of The 9th EUROSIM Congress on Modelling and Simulation, EUROSIM 2016, The 57th SIMS Conference on Simulation and Modelling SIMS 2016
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 142:93, p. 639-645
Published: 2018-12-19
ISBN: 978-91-7685-399-3
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Pneumatic conveying characteristics of a dilute phase flow in a circular horizontal pipe was predicted using MP-PIC method in OpenFOAM code. The geometry, material and operating conditions are similar to some experimental data in published literature. The pipe diameter is 30.5 mm. The solid particles are plastic pellets which are having 1000 kg/m3 of density and 0.2 mm of particle diameter. The simulations were carried out for 10 m/s of superficial air velocity and for different solids mass loadings 0, 1, 2 and 3. The pressure drop, air velocity profiles and solids distribution were analysed and some of the results were compared with experimental data from the literature. The predicted pressure drops and air velocity profiles show a quite good agreement with the experimental data.
