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http://dx.doi.org/10.5407/JKSV.2017.14.3.034

Hydrodynamic Analysis of Rectangular Sieve Tray under Weeping Conditions  

Uwitonze, Hosanna (Global Core Research Center for Ships and Offshore Plants, Pusan National University)
Lee, Inwon (Dept.of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Pusan National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization / v.15, no.3, 2017 , pp. 34-40 More about this Journal
Abstract
Within fractionating devices existing in separation and purification industries, sieve trays are widely used as tower internals and their choice is due to economical attractiveness. While operating a trayed distillation tower weeping phenomenon has a critical effect on the efficiency, in this case study a weeping phenomenon was undertaken by means of numerical model in a rectangular sieve tray. Eulerian-Eulerian Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method was used and the obtained CFD results are in a good agreement with the experimental data in terms of weeping rate and pressure drop.
Keywords
CFD; Multiphase Flow; Hydrodynamics; Rectangular Sieve Tray; Weeping;
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