Experimental and Numerical Study of Gas Flow in Cylindrical Bin Containing Granular Porous Material with Two Common Duct Inlet Arrangements (H, F)

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1 PhD Student, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran.

2 Biosystems Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

3 Professor, Department of Fluid and Thermal Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran

4 Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran.

5 Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran

6 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran.

Abstract

In this study pressure drop of bin containing corn as granular porous material with two common inlet duct arrangements (H, F) for a laboratory silage was studied by using experimental method. Higher pressure was obtained for the F arrangement compare to the H arrangement. The Ergun equation was fitted on the pressure drop of empirical data and the correction coefficients of modified Ergun equation for both H and F arrangements were determined. The coefficient of determination, mean root square error and mean relative error were used as indices to investigate the goodness of fitness between the empirical data and Ergun equation, and the equation had good fitness on the empirical data. The numerical simulation was carried out by finite element simulation of COMSOL Multiphysics v5.3 software using the modified Ergun equation. Moreover, distribution of velocity and flow lines within the bin was also presented.

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Iranian Journal of Biosystems Engineering
Volume 51, Issue 1
April 2020
Pages 89-97

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  • Receive Date: 22 July 2019
  • Revise Date: 21 September 2019
  • Accept Date: 08 October 2019

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