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http://dx.doi.org/10.6112/kscfe.2015.20.4.081

INVESTIGATION OF THE OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLE AND PARAMETRIC STUDY ON A DRY PASTE SEPARATOR EQUIPED WITH A ROTOR -II. CFD ANALYSIS  

Park, S.U. (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A Univ.)
Kang, Y.S. (Research Institute, Kumho Machinery Co. Ltd.)
Kang, S. (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A Univ.)
Suh, Y.K. (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A Univ.)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.20, no.4, 2015 , pp. 81-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
Construction waste mainly consists of concrete aggregates of various size. Improper handling of concrete waste would be a major environmental problem whereas its recycling would be both economically useful and environmentally friendly. Bigger concrete aggregates are crushed and converted to medium and fine particles to make them recyclable. An apparatus to separate the concrete aggregates by their size is thus needed for their effective recycling. In this work, segregation of concrete particles in air flows from a newly designed rotary separator having three stages of blades is simulated using a commercial software, ANSYS-CFX. Both 2-D and 3-D models with 360, 240 and 180 blades in each stage are considered. Fundamental mechanism of separation of particles(pase) and the effect of design parameters such as particle size, rotor speed, air flow rate etc. on the performance of the separator are investigated. Critical size of particles that can be separated by the developed separator is also presented in this work. Simulation results are overall in good agreement with data predicted from the theoretical model previously reported in the companion paper.
Keywords
CFD; Construction waste; Environment industry; Separator; Paste; Fine Aggregate;
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