Numerical and experimental comparison of tracer particle and averaging techniques for particle velocities in a fluidized bed
Abstract
Particle tracking methods using emitted radiation show potential for following motion in opaque systems such as granular materials. Leading examples are Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) and Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT). The application of such techniques sometimes requires the use of tracer particles which differ in size, density and/or shape from the particles of interest. This study investigates the extent to which such differences affect the result of the study by using the open source MFIX-DEM software to model particle motion in the travelling fluidized bed experiments. The results are compared with previously reported experimental studies using both PEPT and RPT. Consistent numerical results were obtained for both PEPT and RPT tracer particles. In determining averaged velocities using such techniques, there is a choice to be made between averaging velocities of particles crossing a virtual plane over a period of time (the “face-average” approach) or those passing through a defined volume over time (the “volume-average” approach). The differences between results obtained with these two methods are shown to be significant in this case, for both computation and experiment.
- Authors:
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- National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States)
- National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); AECOM, Morgantown, WV (United States); SABIC Global Corporate Research, Sugar Land, TX (United States)
- National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
- IFP Energies Nouvelles, Lyon (France)
- Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, PQ (Canada)
- Univ. of Cape Town (South Africa)
- Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1532668
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FE0004000
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Chemical Engineering Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 195; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0009-2509
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Xu, Yupeng, Li, Tingwen, Lu, Liqiang, Tebianian, Sina, Chaouki, Jamal, Leadbeater, Thomas W., Jafari, Rouzben, Parker, David J., Seville, Jonathan, Ellis, Naoko, and Grace, John R. Numerical and experimental comparison of tracer particle and averaging techniques for particle velocities in a fluidized bed. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2018.09.034.
Xu, Yupeng, Li, Tingwen, Lu, Liqiang, Tebianian, Sina, Chaouki, Jamal, Leadbeater, Thomas W., Jafari, Rouzben, Parker, David J., Seville, Jonathan, Ellis, Naoko, & Grace, John R. Numerical and experimental comparison of tracer particle and averaging techniques for particle velocities in a fluidized bed. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2018.09.034
Xu, Yupeng, Li, Tingwen, Lu, Liqiang, Tebianian, Sina, Chaouki, Jamal, Leadbeater, Thomas W., Jafari, Rouzben, Parker, David J., Seville, Jonathan, Ellis, Naoko, and Grace, John R. Mon .
"Numerical and experimental comparison of tracer particle and averaging techniques for particle velocities in a fluidized bed". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2018.09.034. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532668.
@article{osti_1532668,
title = {Numerical and experimental comparison of tracer particle and averaging techniques for particle velocities in a fluidized bed},
author = {Xu, Yupeng and Li, Tingwen and Lu, Liqiang and Tebianian, Sina and Chaouki, Jamal and Leadbeater, Thomas W. and Jafari, Rouzben and Parker, David J. and Seville, Jonathan and Ellis, Naoko and Grace, John R.},
abstractNote = {Particle tracking methods using emitted radiation show potential for following motion in opaque systems such as granular materials. Leading examples are Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) and Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT). The application of such techniques sometimes requires the use of tracer particles which differ in size, density and/or shape from the particles of interest. This study investigates the extent to which such differences affect the result of the study by using the open source MFIX-DEM software to model particle motion in the travelling fluidized bed experiments. The results are compared with previously reported experimental studies using both PEPT and RPT. Consistent numerical results were obtained for both PEPT and RPT tracer particles. In determining averaged velocities using such techniques, there is a choice to be made between averaging velocities of particles crossing a virtual plane over a period of time (the “face-average” approach) or those passing through a defined volume over time (the “volume-average” approach). The differences between results obtained with these two methods are shown to be significant in this case, for both computation and experiment.},
doi = {10.1016/j.ces.2018.09.034},
journal = {Chemical Engineering Science},
number = C,
volume = 195,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {9}
}
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