Original title: Numerical simulation of flow in superpak family packings
Authors: Smutek, J. ; Isoz, Martin
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Conference TOPICAL PROBLEMS OF FLUID MECHANICS 2018, Praha (CZ), 20180221
Year: 2018
Language: eng
Abstract: The distillation is currently the most energy-intensive technology of the chemical industry. Commonly, the distillation is performed in the columns lled with a structured packing. Structured packings are complex structures used to increase the size of the interface available for the mass transfer. Because of the high complexity of both the packings and the physical phenomena occurring during the distillation, the design of the distillation columns is still based mostly on empirical data. In this work, we concentrate on modeling the gas ow in the SuperPak family of structured packings. First, we propose an algorithm for automatic generation\nof the packing geometry. Next, we construct and validate a three-dimensional computational uid dynamics (CFD) model of gas ow through SuperPak 250.Y and SuperPak 350.Y packings. The model validation is done by comparing experimental data of dry pressure losses to the values computed by our model. The obtained di erence between the CFD estimates and experiments is bellow 10 %. Finally, we present a parametric study of the SuperPak 250.Y packing geometry. The devised modeling approach may be easily automated and used for optimization of the SuperPak type packing geometry with respect to the gas ow. Furthermore,\nthe proposed CFD model may be extended to account for the multiphase ow.
Keywords: absorption; CFD; distillation; OpenFOAM; structured packing
Project no.: LM2015070 (CEP), EF15_003/0000493
Funding provider: Ga MŠk, GA MŠk
Host item entry: Topical Problems of Fluid Mechanics 2018, ISBN 978-80-87012-65-9, ISSN 2336-5781

Institution: Institute of Thermomechanics AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at external website.
External URL: http://www.it.cas.cz/fm2015/im/admin/showfile/data/my/Papers/2018/35-TPFM2018.pdf
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0292289

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