Modelling and Simulation of Aerosol Formation by Heterogeneous Nucleation in Gas-Liquid Contact Devices
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- This paper describes a new simulation tool for the prediction of aerosol formation and behavior in gas--liquid contact devices such as absorbers, scrubbers, quench coolers, and condensers as well as multistage gas cleaning processes, respectively. Aerosol formation can impact severely the separation efficiency of gas cleaning processes. Aerosol or fog formation can arise by spontaneous condensation or desublimation in supersaturated gas phases. The rigorous description of the mass and energy transfer between the gas phase, the liquid phase, and the growing aerosol droplets leads to a system of partial differential and algebraic equations. For the solution of these systems we have developed the plant simulation tool AerCoDe. This program bases upon the linearly--implicit Euler discretisation, which in combination with extrapolation permits an adaptive step size and order control. Typical simulation results of a multistage industrial flue gas scrubbing process are presented. It is shown, that experimental data can be confirmed if the number concentration of condensation nuclei as an input parameter is roughly known.
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| Author: | Rainald Ehrig, Oliver Ofenloch, Karlheinz Schaber, Peter Deuflhard |
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| Document Type: | ZIB-Report |
| Tag: | aerosols; balance equations; extrapolation methods; heterogeneous nucleation; two-phase flow |
| MSC-Classification: | 65-XX NUMERICAL ANALYSIS / 65Lxx Ordinary differential equations / 65L80 Methods for differential-algebraic equations |
| 65-XX NUMERICAL ANALYSIS / 65Nxx Partial differential equations, boundary value problems / 65N40 Method of lines | |
| 76-XX FLUID MECHANICS (For general continuum mechanics, see 74Axx, or other parts of 74-XX) / 76Txx Two-phase and multiphase flows / 76T10 Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows | |
| 80-XX CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS, HEAT TRANSFER (For thermodynamics of solids, see 74A15) / 80Axx Thermodynamics and heat transfer / 80A20 Heat and mass transfer, heat flow | |
| Date of first Publication: | 2001/07/04 |
| Series (Serial Number): | ZIB-Report (01-15) |
| ZIB-Reportnumber: | 01-15 |
| Published in: | Appeared in: Chem. Eng. Sci. 57 (2002) 1151-1163 |
