ROCKY software enables simulation of particles with nearly unlimited shapes and sizes. It can import CAD files or define custom shapes. ROCKY was coupled with ANSYS FLUENT CFD software to simulate particle separation in a windshifter. The simulation compared how different drag laws affected particle behavior, finding that the Ganser drag law more accurately reproduced separation based on particle size.
ROCKY software enables simulation of particles with nearly unlimited shapes and sizes. It can import CAD files or define custom shapes. ROCKY was coupled with ANSYS FLUENT CFD software to simulate particle separation in a windshifter. The simulation compared how different drag laws affected particle behavior, finding that the Ganser drag law more accurately reproduced separation based on particle size.
ROCKY software enables simulation of particles with nearly unlimited shapes and sizes. It can import CAD files or define custom shapes. ROCKY was coupled with ANSYS FLUENT CFD software to simulate particle separation in a windshifter. The simulation compared how different drag laws affected particle behavior, finding that the Ganser drag law more accurately reproduced separation based on particle size.
ROCKY software enables simulation of particles with nearly unlimited shapes and sizes. It can import CAD files or define custom shapes. ROCKY was coupled with ANSYS FLUENT CFD software to simulate particle separation in a windshifter. The simulation compared how different drag laws affected particle behavior, finding that the Ganser drag law more accurately reproduced separation based on particle size.
太 Contact Detection Easy Hard Accuracy Poor Very accurate Friction ‘Bumpy’ surface causes No simulation induced G Click larger friction to edit than reality Master friction title style Aspect ratio Large aspect ratio, sharp Large aspect ratio, sharp lo edges, corners are a corners & edges are limitation accurately represented Breakage Cannot break unless bonded Can break and have ba spheres are used different models www.rocky-dem.com ACCURATE, with real physical representation
Concave Shapes:
安 世 PE
亚 Thin potato chip RA
太 G Click to edit Master title style lo ba Cheetos
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Test case #1 – Windshifter (1-way coupling)
安 ● Typically used in industrial waste processes to separate light from heavy particles;
世 PE ● Basically consists of a vertical shaft in which an air stream flows upwards;
亚 ● Particles are dropped into the shaft and, RA
太 depending on their sizes, shapes and densities, will rise up (light fraction) or settle down (heavy fraction); G Motivation: Click to edit Master title style lo ● Investigate the influence of different drag laws on the particles behavior in the ba windshifter.
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Geometry Mesh
安 Fluid domain (Fluent mesh)
世 1m PE
亚 225° Particles RA inlet in
太 Rocky
2m G Click to edit Master title style ϕ = 0.5 m lo ba Air inlet (20 m/s) www.rocky-dem.com Rocky and ANSYS FLUENT Coupling
安 Windshifter - Material properties
Injection Material Shape Diameter [mm] Density [kg/m3] Mass flow rate [kg/h] Volume flow rate [m3/h]
世 20 PE Paper Flat 50 800 1000 1,25
亚 80
20 RA Stone Sphere 50 3000 3750 1,25
太 80
20
Metal Rod 50 8000 10000 1,25
80 G Click to20edit Master title style Wood Briquette 50 900 1125 1,25 lo 80 ba
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Windshifter - Paper settling velocity
安 Estimated terminal velocity
世 ● Paper particle sphericity (ɸ) = 0.434 PE ● Gas inlet velocity = 20 m/s
亚 RA
太 Paper particles Terminal velocity [m/s]
Equivalent diameter Schiller & Naumann Ganser
[mm] G 2.0 Click to edit 19.69 Master ↑ (rise) title style 7.71 ↑ (rise) lo 5.0 31.13 ↓ (settle) 12.31 ↑ (rise) 8.0 39.38 ↓ (settle) 15.66 ↑ (rise) ba
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● CFD Results: cnverged steady-state solution
安 世 PE
亚 RA
太 G Click to edit Master title style lo ba
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Windshifter - Schiller & Naumann Drag Law
安 世 PE
亚 RA
太 G Click to edit Master title style lo ba
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Windshifter - Ganser Drag Law
安 世 PE
亚 RA
太 G Click to edit Master title style lo ba
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● Schiller & Naumann drag law did not take in account for the non-sphericity,
安 predicting higher terminal velocity than Ganser, so that the bigger paper particles fall down.
世 PE
亚 RA
太 G Click to edit Master title style lo
● Ganser drag law reproduces particle behavior more accurately.
