Secador ciclônico: modelagem e simulação via CFX.

Abstract

In recent years, cyclones have been used as a modern drying technology. In this sense, this research proposes a numerical study to describe drying of sugarcane bagasse, using the cyclone as dryer. To this end, it was adopted the RNG-K epsilon model in steady state. The Reynolds stress model was adopted to describe turbulence of the gas phase, while the lumped model in transient state was adopted to describe heat and mass transfer of the particulate phase (sugarcane bagasse). It was considered the particle sugarcane bagasse with irregular shape and consists of water only, in order to simplify the model. The solution of the model was obtained using commercial software Ansys CFX 15.0. Moisture content results, temperature, dimensional variations and trajectory of the particles, and distribution of velocity, pressure and temperature of the gas phase inside the cyclone are presented and analyzed. It was found that the temperature and pressure field and the vector field within the numerically obtained cyclone showed good agreement with experimental data available in the literature and that the kinetics of drying, heating, dimensional variations and particle residence time (sugarcane bagasse) are affected by the inlet condition of the drying gas.