Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

The Korean Society of Marine Engineering (한국마린엔지니어링학회)
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Wall flow characteristics with static mixer position and housing geometry for preventing urea-salt deposition

우레아염 퇴적 방지를 위한 믹서 위치 및 하우징 형상에 따른 벽면 유동특성에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2013.03.11
  • Accepted : 2013.05.11
  • Published : 2013.05.31
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Abstract

The Urea-SCR system commercialized shows a remarkable performance to reduce NOx emission in heavy duty diesel engines. However, Urea-water solution injected upstream a mixer, which is set up inside a exhaust pipe to promote exhaust gas-atomized droplet mixing, bumps up against the wall of a exhaust pipe as the droplets flow downstream through the exhaust gas. The urea deposited on the wall of the exhaust pipe is changed into the Urea-salt, resulting in the decreased life-time of the SCR catalysts. Therefore, the development of the urea deposition avoidance technologies is being treated as an important issue of the Urea-SCR systems. An experimental study was carried out to investigate the effects of the wall flow characteristics around the mixer-housing assembly with the variation of the mixer housing surrounding and supporting the mixer, which is designed to increase the wall flow and then to reduce droplet deposition. The flow characteristics was investigated by using a hot-wire anemometry for 2-D simplified duct model, and the housing tilt angles and the position of the mixer were changed : angle of $0^{\circ}$, $1^{\circ}$, $2^{\circ}$, $3^{\circ}$, and mixer positions of 0L, 0.5L, 1L. The results showed that the wall flow onto the exhaust pipe was improved with changing the tilt angle of the mixer housing, and the wall flow improved more when the position of the mixer was on 1L.

대형디젤기관 배기가스 저감용 Urea-SCR 시스템은 높은 NOx 저감율을 보이는 반면, 높은 관통도를 갖는 요소수가 벽면 충돌 후 증발하지 못하고 벽면에 머물게 되어 우레아염을 형성한다. 우레아염 생성 방지를 위한 방안으로 벽면유동 형성을 촉진하기위한 믹서-하우징 조립체의 형상 최적화와 관련된 실험적 연구가 수행되었다. 하우징 경사각 변화 및 믹서 설치위치에 따라 벽면유동의 증가 가능성이 hot-wire 시스템을 이용하여 조사되었다. 벽면 유동은 하우징 경사각 및 믹서 설치 위치에 큰 영향을 받으며, 하우징 경사각이 있고 믹서가 하우징 후단에 설치될 때 벽면유동이 향상되는 것을 알 수 있었다.

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