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Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Counter-Current Reactor System for Nanomaterial Production by Cai Y. Ma, Tariq Mahmud, Xue Z. Wang, Chris J. Tighe, Robert I. Gruar, and Jawwad A. Darr is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
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Continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis (CHFS) systems can provide high quality fine nanoparticles. However, optimisation of the CHFS system including the reactor and heat exchanger design, and their scaling-up for commercial applications have not been studied and cannot be achieved only through laboratory and pilot plant experiments. CFD modelling techniques are being widely used to simulate fluid field, heat and mass transfer in a lot of industrial process equipment. However, the application of CFD to model CHFS systems is still rare. This paper employs CFD methodology to simulate fluid flow and heat transfer in a counter-current reactor and a tubular heat exchanger of a laboratory-scale CHFS system for the production of TiO2 nanoparticles. The distributions of flow and heat transfer variables such as velocity and temperature in both units are obtained using ANSYS Fluent package. The tracer concentration profile is also simulated via solving the species equations to investigate the mixing behaviour in the counter-current reactor. Temperature distributions at different locations in a counter-current reactor and a tubular heat exchanger of a CHFS system were obtained experimentally.
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- Author
- Cai Y. Ma, Tariq Mahmud, Xue Z. Wang, Chris J. Tighe, Robert I. Gruar, and Jawwad A. Darr
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)