(172d) Solid Suspension in Stirred Vessels: Comparison of a Fully Coupled CFD-DEM and an Eulerian Multiphase Approach
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2017
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety
Process Development Division
Modeling Tools and Techniques for Process R&D II
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 11:21am to 11:43am
In the past, there was been work presented using multiphase CFD methods, specifically the Eulerian approach. This approach has shown promising results for turbulent conditions [1]. Further work has also been carried out where Discrete Element Modeling for particle flows was co-simulated with CFD simulations for fluid flow [2].
In this work we compare based on experimental data simulation results of fully 2-way coupled CFD-DEM simulations with an Eulerian Multiphase (EMP) approach based on the Kinetic Theory of Granular Flow (KTGF) in terms of accuracy and runtime. While the CFD-DEM simulation typically needs more runtime, it needs less model parameter determination and tuning than the EMP approach.
[1] R. Aglave, J. Feng, E. Janz, R. Strong and T. Eppinger, CFD Simulation of Solids Supension at High Loading, AIChE annual meeting 2015, Salt Lake City, UH, USA
[2] B. Blais, M. Lassaigne, C. Goniva, L. Fradette and F. Bertrand, 2015. A Robust and Efficient CFD-DEM Model for the Investigation of Viscous Solid-Liquid Mixing in Stirred Tanks, 10th European Conference on Chemical Engineering, Nice, France.