Numerical Analysis on Solid Particle Erosion in Elbow of a Slurry Conveying Circuit
Publication: Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
Volume 12, Issue 1
Abstract
This study investigates the solid particle erosion in an elbow of a slurry conveying circuit by using a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code FLUENT. Erosion wear was predicted by using the Euler-Lagrange model applied with a turbulence scheme of standard . In the present study, the effect of various design parameters, namely radius of bend-to-pipe diameter () ratio, pipe diameter (), bend curvature angle, and bend radius angle, was studied. The radius of the ratio varied from 1.4 to 1.7. The flow velocity varied between 2 and and the solid concentration was kept constant, i.e., 10 vol.%. The mean size fraction of bottom ash varied from 102 to . Numerical simulation results show that erosion rate increases with velocity, particle size, and pipe diameter. The optimum value of the ratio was between 1.5 and 1.6. Lower erosion wear occurred near the entrance of the elbow and reached the maximum near 60° of the bend curvature. The particle size range of was found critical for high erosion wear.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published article.
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The authors want to acknowledge that this work is neither part of any Masters nor Ph.D. thesis.
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Received: Jun 18, 2019
Accepted: Aug 25, 2020
Published online: Nov 18, 2020
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