Malaysia is in dire need of alternatives to landfilling for solid waste management. Recently, landfills have faced the problems
of overfilling, overflowing of leachates leading to pollution of water resources, and uncontrolled dust emissions adversely
affecting the local environment. With the rising cost of urbanization coupled with the high rate of waste generation, one
possible method of waste treatment that is receiving particular attention by the government is incineration. Incineration
of solid waste is rather new in Malaysia, with limited usage in handling small sources of waste generation such as the municipal
solid waste (MSW) of resort islands; however, its potential in ameliorating the problems associated with solid waste treatment
may make it an attractive alternative to landfill. This article presents the results of test runs conducted to investigate
the performance of a locally designed and manufactured rotary kiln incinerator (RKI). The test runs were conducted using MSW
collected from the Shah Alam municipality. The combustion efficiency was analyzed by looking at the temperature profiles and
chemical species concentrations. To complement the combustion characteristics measurements, predictions of the air flow in
the incinerator during the process were also investigated. The overall performance of the RKI suggests that it is suitable
for treating MSW. 相似文献
The mixing characteristics of a passive scalar in the turbulent flow of a selective catalytic reduction process were numerically
and experimentally investigated, focusing especially on an injection nozzle with multiple holes for the reducing agent. The
multihole injection nozzle studied has six holes that are perpendicular to the ambient flue gas flow and are located near
the tip of the nozzle. Large eddy simulation was applied to the turbulent flow and mixing fields to elucidate the mixing mechanism
of the proposed nozzle compared with the single-hole nozzle that is commonly used in the conventional selective catalytic
reduction process. From the results, there exist broader regions of higher turbulent intensities for the multihole nozzle
than for the conventional single-hole nozzle. These regions are well matched with the positions of high vorticity in the near
upstream region of the jet flow issuing from the multiple holes of the nozzle. Consequently, the high turbulent intensities
and vorticity magnitudes lead to intensified mixing between the flue gas and the reducing agent. Hence, the most suitable
molar ratio between NOx and the reducing agent for the catalytic reaction can be easily obtained within a shorter physical
mixing length as a result of the enhanced scalar mixing. Finally, the numerical results were applied to a trial design version
of a multihole nozzle, and this nozzle was experimentally tested to confirm its mixing performance. 相似文献
Correlating turbulent burning velocity to turbulence intensity and basic flame parameters-like laminar burning velocity for dust air mixtures is not only a scientific challenge but also of practical importance for the modelling of dust flame propagation in industrial facilities and choice of adequate safety strategy. The open tube method has been implemented to measure laminar and turbulent burning velocities at laboratory scale for turbulence intensities in the range of a few m/s. Special care has been given to the experimental technique so that a direct access to the desired parameters was possible minimising interpretation difficulties. In particular, the flame is propagating freely, the flame velocity is directly accessible by visualisation and the turbulence intensity is measured at the flame front during flame propagation with special aerodynamic probes. In the present paper, those achievements are briefly recalled. In addition, a complete set of experiments for diametrically opposed dusts, starch and aluminium, has been performed and is presented hereafter. The experimental data, measured for potato dust air mixtures seem to be in accordance with the Bray Gülder model in the range of 1.5 m/s<u′<3.5 m/s. For a further confirmation, the measurement range has been extended to lower levels of turbulence of u′<1.5 m/s. This could be achieved by changing the mode of preparation of the dust air mixture. In former tests, the particles have been injected into the tube from a pressurised dust reservoir; for the lower turbulence range, the particles have been inserted into the tube from above by means of a sieve–riddler system, and the turbulence generated from the pressurised gas reservoir as before. For higher levels of turbulence, aluminium air mixtures have been investigated using the particle injection mode with pressurised dust reservoir. Due to high burning rates much higher flame speeds than for potato dusts of up to 23 m/s have been obtained. 相似文献
The spatial development of a passive scalar plume is studied within the inhomogeneous turbulence of a boundary layer flow in a recirculating laboratory flume with a smooth bed. The source of the scalar is located flush with the bed, and the low-momentum source design is intended to simulate a diffusive-type scalar release. A weakly diffusive fluorescent dye is used as the scalar. Planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) techniques were used to record the structure of the plume at a spatial resolution of 150 μm. The measured structure of the mean concentration field is compared to an analytical solution for shear-free, homogeneous turbulence. The laboratory plume exhibits spatial development in the mean concentration field that deviates from the self-similar behavior predicted by the analytical solution; this deviation is due to the mean shear and inhomogeneity of the turbulence. In particular, the influence of the viscous sublayer on the plume development is seen to be significant. Nonetheless, the analytical solution replicates some of the features seen in the laboratory plume, and the solution suggests methods of reducing the laboratory data even for cases where the results deviate from the analysis. We also examine the spatial development of the root-mean-square (rms) fluctuating concentration field, and use scalar probability density functions to examine the relationship between the mean and fluctuating concentrations. 相似文献
A mechanism of formation of small-scale inhomogeneities in spatial distributions of aerosols and droplets associated with
clustering instability in the atmospheric turbulent flow is discussed. The particle clustering is a consequence of a spontaneous
breakdown of their homogeneous space distribution due to the clustering instability, and is caused by a combined effect of
the particle inertia and a finite correlation time of the turbulent velocity field. In this paper a theoretical approach proposed
in Elperin et al. (2002) Phys Rev E 66:036302 is further developed and applied to investigate the mechanisms of formation
of small-scale aerosol inhomogeneities in the atmospheric turbulent flow. The theory of the particle clustering instability
is extended to the case when the particle Stokes time is larger than the Kolmogorov time scale, but is much smaller than the
correlation time at the integral scale of turbulence. We determined the criterion of the clustering instability for the Stokes
number larger than 1. We discussed applications of the analyzed effects to the dynamics of aerosols and droplets in the atmospheric
turbulent flow. 相似文献
The oxygenated species, massively produced in the energy production plants based on combustion processes, constitute one of the most numerous categories of hazardous air pollutants. Therefore, development of real time diagnostic tools are needed in order to study their formation during combustion processes and to reveal their presence both in the exhaust and in the atmosphere. In this work, oxygenated compounds were identified inside fuel-rich premixed ethylene/air flames by means of ultraviolet fluorescence spectroscopy with the support of qualitative chemical analysis of the sampled combustion gases.
Strong band progression, typical of aldehydic functionality, were recognized in fluorescence spectra (λexc=355 nm) measured in the early oxidation region of premixed flames varying the equivalence ratio from 3.0 up 21.6. Downstream of the oxidation region, spectroscopic signatures of pyrolytic species were found to prevail on those peculiar of oxygenated compound. The position and the extension of the two main flame zones were found to depend on the flame conditions (C/O ratio) due to the effect of the C/O ratio on the temperature history along the flame axis. This correlation was interpreted on the basis of the measured axial temperature profiles. 相似文献
Results of experiments and data analysis on turbulent flame propagation in obstructed channels are presented. The data cover a wide range of mixtures: H2/air, H2/air/steam (from lean to rich) at normal and elevated initial temperatures (from 298 to 650 K) and pressures (from 1 to 3 bar); and stoichiometric H2/O2 mixtures diluted with N2, Ar, He and CO2 at normal initial conditions. The dataset chosen also covers a wide range of scales exceeding two orders of magnitude. It is shown that basic flame parameters, such as mixture expansion ratio σ, Zeldovich number β and Lewis number Le, can be used to estimate a priori a potential for effective flame acceleration for a given mixture. Critical conditions for effective flame acceleration are suggested in the form of correlations of critical expansion ratio σ* versus dimensionless effective activation energy. On this basis, limits for effective flame acceleration for hydrogen combustibles can be estimated. Uncertainties in determination of critical σ* values are discussed. 相似文献
Due to the lack of data on hydraulic-jump dynamics in very large channels, the present paper describes the main characteristics
of the velocity field and turbulence in a large rectangular channel with a width of 4 m. Although a hydraulic jump is always
treated as a wave that is transversal to the channel wall, in the case of this study it has a trapezoidal front shape, first
starting from a point at the sidewalls and then developing downstream in an oblique manner, finally giving rise to a trapezoidal
shape. The oblique wave front may be regarded as a lateral shockwave that arises from a perturbation at a certain point of
the lateral wall and travels obliquely toward the centreline of the channel. The experimental work was carried out at the
Coastal Engineering Laboratory of the Water Engineering and Chemistry Department of the Technical University of Bari (Italy).
In addition to the hydraulic jump formation, a large recirculating flow zone starts to develop from the separating point of
the lateral shock wave and a separate boundary layer occurs. Intensive measurements of the streamwise and spanwise flow velocity
components along one-half width of the channel were taken using a bidimensional Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV). The water
surface elevation was obtained by means of an ultrasonic profiler. Velocity vectors, transversal velocity profiles, turbulence
intensities and Reynolds shear stresses were all investigated. The experimental results of the separated boundary layer were
compared with numerical predictions and related work presented in literature and showed good agreement. The transversal velocity
profiles indicated the presence of adverse pressure gradient zones and the law of the wall appears to govern the region around
the separated boundary layer. 相似文献