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The interior of sludge floc is highly heterogeneous, while the large pores in the floc control the advective flow. This work for the first time numerically details fluid flow and mass transfer processes in pores of activated sludge floc. The dimensionless permeabilities and mass dispersion coefficients were contoured against pore size ratio and the floc Reynolds number. With a pore size less than 20% of the floc size, the commonly adopted homogeneous model overestimates the floc permeability, and pore velocity is less than 2% of the bulk velocity. This is particularly true for flocs with low porosity. Although the convective flux is low, the dispersive mass transfer rate can be much higher than the diffusional rate, attributable to the strong Taylor dispersion effect. The three-dimensional pore structures in waste activated-sludge floc were identified using confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) images. Large pores were used to numerically estimate the permeability and dispersion coefficient for these pores. The permeability and the dispersion coefficient of the tortuous pores can be one order of magnitude lower than those for the equivalent straight pores. Besides the dispersio
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- Author
- C.P. Chu; D.J. Lee
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0021-9797)
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Chemistry (Physical Sciences)