Estudo teórico e experimental do fluxo de sólidos particulados em silos verticais.

Abstract

This work was aimed at presenting a theoretical and experimental study of the mass flow and the flow of granular products to support the structural design of silos. We developed a mathematical model to predict the flow of discharge for different products. We studied the physical characteristics and flow of five granular products: millet, fine sand and three meals of corn, and evaluated the flow behavior of particles in a cylindrical silo, equipped with flat bottom hoppers 30 and 45 inclination to the vertical, different discharge outlets, 3.5 and 5cm in diameter and three m.roughness of the walls, 0.06, 6.56 and 11.9 It was concluded that the roughness of the wall, in the range studied did not influence the flow of discharge for all products. The highest rates of discharge were recorded in the silo for sand and the lowest was observed for the corn bran M1, whose approximate ratio was 2.5 for the various forms of discharge. The highest rates of discharge were observed when the diameter of the exit hole was 5 cm reaching a value of 1.35 kg / s. The lowest flow rate of discharge of the products were recorded when using the to the value of 0, 16 kg/s for the product hopper with an inclination of 30 that had the lowest flow rates, corn bran M1.O phenomenon "slip stick" was observed for different particle size of corn bran, being more intense for the M2. The proposed model presented a reasonable adjustment in relation to the experimental data.