CPOTE2022
7th International Conference on
Contemporary Problems of Thermal Engineering
Hybrid event, Warsaw | 20-23 September 2022
7th International Conference on
Contemporary Problems of Thermal Engineering
Hybrid event, Warsaw | 20-23 September 2022
Abstract CPOTE2022-1152-A
Book of abstracts draft
Assessment of rotational speed impact on the performance of hydrodynamic disintegrator dedicated for the sugar beet pulp hydrodynamic disintegration
Aleksandra DZIDO, Warsaw University of Technology, PolandPiotr KRAWCZYK, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
The annual production of beet sugar in Poland in 2021/2022 marketing year was 2.3 million tonnes. The by-product of beet sugar processing is beet sugar pulp, which utilization may be challenging. The sugar beet pulp may be managed in the agricultural biogas plants. One way of biogas production intensification is substrate disintegration. This study covers the analysis of the hydrodynamic disintegrator dedicated for the agricultural waste pretreatment aimed at biogas production intensification. The process can be divided into two stages: mechanical shredding in the knives zone and substrate cavitation in rotor grooves. Aiming at hydrodynamic disintegrator assessment, especially in the frames of rotational speed mathematical model of the processes was built and implemented in Ansys CFX numerical environment. The sugar beet pulp has been subjected to rheological tests to determine the medium viscosity. The fluid was identified as non-Newtonian, viscoplastic. The Herschel-Bulkley model was used for the viscosity calculation. Three rotational speeds were considered: 1500 rev/min, 2500 rev/min and 3000 rev/min. The shear stress field in the knives zone and low-pressure zones in the rotor grooves were analyzed. The largest cavitation volume was suspected in the case of the highest considered rotational speed.
Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Non-Newtonian fluid, Mathematical modelling, Hydrodynamic disintegration, Biogas production
Acknowledgment: This research was the part of Innovation Incubator 4.0 programme, funded from European funds as part of the non-competitive project "Support for the management of scientific research and commercialization of R&D results in research units and enterprises", implemented under the Intelligent Development Operational Program 2014-2020.