2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AIR AND COKE PARTICLEMOTIONS IN BLAST FURNACE TO MINUMIZE CO_2 EMISSION
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16560150
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Fluid engineering
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
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Principal Investigator |
UMEKAGE Toshihiko KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, ACCOSIATE PROFESSOR, 工学部, 助教授 (20223597)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | BLAST FURNACE / NUMERICAL SIMULATION / MINIMIZATION OF CO_2 EMISSION / UNUSUAL PHENOMENA / DISTINCT ELEMENT METHOD / DSMC METHOD / NEVIER-STOKES EQUATION / PARTICLE-TO-PARTICLE INTERACTION |
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| Research Abstract |
We have numerically simulated the particle and gas flows in a real blast furnace using Distinct Element Method for the computation of the multi body interaction among coke particles, Hard Sphere Model for two body interaction of powder particles based on Direct Simulation of Monte-Carlo Method and Finite Difference Method for the numerical analysis of Navier-Stokes equations with the interaction terms between gas and particles for the gas flows. In the simulations we have taken the existence of softening melting cohesive zones and cohesive matters into account. The calculation results indicate the various flow patterns, those fluctuations and its various periods. The results also indicate the velocity distributions of coke, powder and gas, and packing ratio distributions of these particles. The dynamical characteristics fluctuate and are unstable. The highly packed coke and powder particle layers are formed in the lower core and in the lower wall regions under the tuyere due to the air
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and these particle flows. The high air velocity region appears in the layer between the softening melting cohesive zones and the highly packed furnace lower core region, and the unstable high air velocity region is produced near the furnace wall and on the raceway by the existence and the disappearance of softening melting cohesive zones. The coke and powder particles and the softening melting cohesive zones would yield the unstable state in the furnace. The powder particles circularly spread and make the circularly multi-layered powder particle clusters caused by the particle collisions and the breakage of clusters. Some of the powder particles flow upward and others are packed in the furnace lower core region by the particle and the air flows. Our calculated results present an unusual phenomenon example in the blast furnace, that is, the unusual high air velocity wide region touched to the furnace wall is formed due to the effect of the softening melting cohesive zone, the cohesive matter and the size reduction of coke particles in the furnace center region. Less
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Research Products
(4 results)
