https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611402101
Study of blades inclination influence of gate impeller with a non-Newtonian fluid of Bingham
Arids zones energetic laboratory (ENERGARID), TAHRI Mohamed University of Béchar, BP 417, 08000 Béchar, Algeria.
a Corresponding author: rahmani_l1@yahoo.fr
Published online: 28 March 2016
A large number of chemical operations, biochemical or petrochemical industry is very depending on the rheological fluids nature. In this work, we study the case of highly viscous of viscoplastic fluids in a classical system of agitation: a cylindrical tank with plate bottom without obstacles agitated by gate impeller agitator. We are interested to the laminar, incompressible and isothermal flows. We devote to a numerical approach carried out using an industrial code CFD Fluent 6.3.26 based on the method of finites volumes discretization of Navier - Stokes equations formulated in variables (U.V.P). The threshold of flow related to the viscoplastic behavior is modeled by a theoretical law of Bingham. The results obtained are used to compare between the five configurations suggested of power consumption. We study the influence of inertia by the variation of Reynolds number.
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