CFD analysis for U extraction in a centrifugal contactor

CFDを利用した遠心抽出器内のU抽出挙動評価

佐野 雄一   ; 坂本 淳志  ; 小藤 博英  ; 竹内 正行 

Sano, Yuichi; Sakamoto, Atsushi; Kofuji, Hirohide; Takeuchi, Masayuki

遠心抽出器の運転条件がUの抽出挙動に与える影響について、液相(水相及び有機相)間の物質移動を考慮した、乱流数値モデルに基づいたCFD解析により評価した。ロータ回転数や有機相/水相流量比の違いによる抽出挙動の変化について、実験により得られた傾向を概ね再現できることを確認した。

The effect of operational condition of the annular centrifugal contactor (ACC) on U extraction behavior was investigated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis considering mass transfer between aqueous and organic phases, and the calculation results were validated experimentally. The CFD analysis with ANSYS FLUENT was carried out using the Eulerian multi-fluid approach with a standard k- turbulence model. In order to calculate the droplet size of the dispersed phase and mass transfer between aqueous and organic phases, user-defined functions (UDF) were created. The changes of U extraction performance, i.e. U stage efficiency, with the rotor speed and the O/A ratio (= organic flowrate / aqueous flowrate) were calculated, and these showed a good agreement with experimental results.