BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI
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Bul. Inst. Polit. Iaşi, t. LVIII (LXII), f. 3, 2012 121<br />
resistence. The empirical coefficients D ij , C ij can be related to those in the<br />
FLUENT - CFD programme Eq. (12). The components of the resistance in<br />
these two directions and resistance terms in the horizontal direction can be<br />
designated as R h and S ho , and those in the vertical direction R v and S v . Two<br />
orthogonal horizontal directions are designated by the indices 1 and 2, and the<br />
vertical direction has the index 3.<br />
This is implemented in FLUENT by introducing temperature of 30 º C the<br />
viscosity and density of air are, respectively (18.37·10 6 Pa·s and 1.191 kg/m 3 ).<br />
Using these values we find that D 11 =D 22 =1.833·10 8 , D 33 =2.037·10 8 and<br />
C 11 =C 22 =18371, C 33 =26767.<br />
⎧Rh<br />
μ; i= j = 1,2,<br />
⎪<br />
D Rv<br />
; i j 3,<br />
ij<br />
= ⎨ μ = =<br />
⎪<br />
⎩0; i≠ j, i= 1,2,3, j = 1,2,3.<br />
(12)<br />
⎧2 ⋅ Sh0<br />
ρa; i= j = 1,2,<br />
⎪<br />
Cij = ⎨2 ⋅ Sv ρa; i= j = 3,<br />
⎪<br />
⎩0; i≠ j, i= 1,2,3, j = 1,2,3.<br />
3. Simulation<br />
The aim of this paper is to illustrate how a standard CFD package may be<br />
modified so it can be used to simulate heat and moisture processes that occur<br />
during malt drying process. The features that apply specifically to bulk dry malt<br />
are accommodated by User-Defined Functions (UDF-s) written in a high-level<br />
computer language such as C and introduce in the computer package FLUENT.<br />
A possible further outcome of the work is that it demonstrates how standard<br />
CFD codes can be modified to account for the behaviour of other drying<br />
systems such as those used for horticultural and other agricultural products.<br />
Pre-processing as a first step in CFD simulation is achieved by creating<br />
the drying zone geometry and meshes it with the GAMBIT software.<br />
Drying area is composed of three regions shown in Fig. 1, hot air input<br />
with a low moisture content, malt box region and exhaust air region with high<br />
humidity. The geometry is discretization with structured mesh and 1200000<br />
elements.<br />
Table 1<br />
Geometric dimensions<br />
Areas Length, m Width, m Height, m Thickness malt bed, m<br />
input 0.380 0.370 0.5 -<br />
malt bed 0.380 0.370 0.05 0.007<br />
output 0.380 0.370 0.3 -