화학공학소재연구정보센터
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.78, No.5, 983-993, 2000
Simulation of fine particle formation by precipitation using computational fluid dynamics
The Lt-environment generalized micromixing (4-EGM) model is applied to describe turbulent mixing and precipitation of barium sulfate in a tubular reactor. The model is implemented in the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software Fluent. The CFD code is first used to solve for the hydrodynamic fields (velocity, turbulence kinetic energy, turbulent energy dissipation). The species concentrations and moments of the crystal size distribution (CSD) are then computed using user-defined transport equations. CFD simulations are performed for the tubular reactor used in an earlier experimental study of barium sulfate precipitation. The 4-EGM CFD results are shown to compare favourably to CFD results found using the presumed beta PDF model. The latter has previously been shown to yield good agreement with experimental data for the mean crystal size at the outlet of the tubular reactor.