Computer Simulation of Flow Field in Tower Continuous Vacuum Dryer

Author

Zhijun, Zhang ; Chenghai, Xu ; Shiwei, Zhang ; Lili, Zhao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng. & Autom., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang

fYear

2008

fDate

Aug. 29 2008-Sept. 2 2008

Firstpage

534

Lastpage

538

Abstract

The simulation method of CFD was used to investigate the gas pressure and velocity 3D field of tower continuous vacuum dryer. The standard turbulence model was adopted. Material zone was set as porous medium zone. Darcy law, Ergun equation and porous medium interface jump boundary condition was applied. The result shows that the pressure of vacuum outlet should lower the pressure of material inlet and outlet. It should be used 8000 Pa of vacuum outlet, 9000 Pa of grain inlet and outlet. At the bottom of last drying stage, it should set vacuum pipeline to improve the gas field to improve the device the performance. The pressure and velocity of air is uniformly distributed along height of dryer. It is not the main factor of drying quality. On the top of every drying stage of the vacuum dryer, adopting three horny pipelines has better velocity uniformity for cross section of drying room.

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics; drying; flow simulation; flow through porous media; mechanical engineering computing; pipe flow; pipelines; turbulence; CFD simulation method; drying quality; drying room; flow field computer simulation; porous medium interface jump boundary condition; standard turbulence model; tower continuous vacuum dryer; vacuum pipeline; Boundary conditions; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer science; Computer simulation; Heat transfer; Information technology; Mechanical engineering; Pipelines; Poles and towers; Vacuum technology; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Computer Simulation; Flow Field; Vacuum Drying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Information Technology, 2008. ICCSIT '08. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3308-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSIT.2008.37

Filename

4624925