화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chemical Engineering & Technology, Vol.43, No.8, 1522-1529, 2020
Numeric Simulation-Based Analysis of the Mixing Process in Anaerobic Digesters of Biogas Plants
Stirring systems with two rotational three-bladed propellers were analyzed using computational fluid dynamics. The propellers are located at three heights and seven angles in a tank with 9 m radius. The fluid was characterized by non-Newtonian rheology and simulated by applying the k-epsilon turbulence model and the standard k-omega model. Reynolds numbers were estimated. High fluid speeds were obtained with the propellers located at a height of 2 m and oriented at 90 degrees with respect to the tank radius. In the top regions of the tank, the fluid velocity was generally less intense and less affected by the angle setting. The configurations identified as good mixing systems showed power consumptions broadly distributed around 30 kW.