ANP; PETROBRAS, FINEP / Escoamentos multifásicos estão presentes não somente em diversos processos da natureza, mas também são muito comuns em diversas atividades industriais, como na exploração, produção e transporte de petróleo e gás. Na produção de petróleo, a mistura multifásica de gás, petróleo e água é frequentemente encontrada fluindo através de colunas e risers de produção. Nos últimos anos muito progresso no desenvolvimento e aplicação de técnicas de medição em escoamentos multifásicos foi realizado cujo intuito é quantificar com exatidão, prever e/ou controlar o fluxo de misturas multifásicas. Em especial técnicas de imageamento do escoamento multifásico estão em foco atualmente. Sensores de malha de eletrodos (wire-mesh sensors) são dispositivos que produzem imagens da distribuição das fases na seção transversal de uma tubulação com alta resolução espacial e temporal. Em estudos anteriores a utilização desse sensor é explorada em diversas aplicações em escoamentos bifásicos (predominantemente do tipo gás-líquido). O princípio de funcionamento do sensor é baseado na medição de uma única propriedade elétrica (condutividade ou permissividade) da mistura multifásica. Portanto, o objetivo deste trabalho é a aplicação da técnica wire-mesh para visualização de escoamentos multifásicos em alta velocidade para condições de escoamentos diferentes daquelas utilizados até o momento, bem como prover a técnica com melhorias, adicionando a capacidade de operar em dupla modalidade (medição simultânea condutiva/capacitiva). Assim, novos algoritmos e rotinas de processamento de dados para a investigação de escoamentos gás-líquido e sólido-líquido (suspensão) foram desenvolvidos e testados. A fim de continuar com o aprimoramento da técnica xiii de medição, uma nova eletrônica capaz de medir simultaneamente a permissividade e condutividade através da medição (vetorial) de amplitude e fase é introduzido. Além disso, um algoritmo baseado em um modelo da permissividade elétrica complexa realiza a fusão dos dados de condutividade e permissividade gerados pela técnica desenvolvida. Assim, esta fusão permite obter distribuições individuais das frações de fase de misturas de óleo-água-gás. A principal contribuição deste trabalho no campo de medição e investigação de escoamentos multifásicos é, por conseguinte, o desenvolvimento e aplicação soluções em software e processamento de dados para extração de parâmetros do fluxo multifasico a partir de dados do sensor wire-mesh, bem como a melhoria no sistema de medição com adoção de medidas vetoriais. Desta forma, a gama de aplicação do sensor wire-mesh é ampliada, permitindo a investigação de escoamentos gás-líquido e gás-sólido, assim como escoamentos trifásicos gás-líquido-líquido através de visualização em alta velocidade da distribuição de fases em escoamentos. / Multiphase flows are present not only in nature but also are very common in industrial activities such as in exploration, production and transport of oil and gas. In oil production, the mixture of gas, oil and water is often found streaming through production columns and flow risers. A lot of progress has been made in recent years in the development and application of measurement techniques applied to multiphase flow measurement in order to accurately quantify, predict and control the flow of multiphase mixtures. Especially, high-speed imaging of multiphase flows has received much attention in recent years. Wire-mesh sensors are flow-imaging devices and allow the investigation of multiphase flows with high spatial and temporal resolution. In the past, such sensors have found widespread application in gas-liquid flows. Its operating principle is based on measurement of a single electrical property (conductivity or permittivity) of flowing mixture. The objective of this work is the application of the wire-mesh technique for high-speed multiphase flow imaging in different flow conditions as applied so far, as well as the further development of this technique by adding the capability of dual-modality (simultaneous conductive/capacitive) operation. Hence, novel routines and data processing algorithms for the investigation of two-phase flows of the type gas-liquid and solid-liquid (slurry) were developed and tested. As a step towards the further development of the wire-mesh sensor technique, a novel dual- modality electronics being able to simultaneously evaluate the conductivity and permittivity component of a fluid through vector measurements (amplitude and phase) is introduced. Further, a model-based algorithm to fuse the data of dual-modality wire xi mesh sensor is developed to obtain individual phase fraction distributions in gas-oil- water three-phase flows. Hence, this thesis’ main contribution to the field of flow measurement and investigation is the development and application of software solutions for extracting flow parameters from wire-mesh sensor data, as well as the improvement in the hardware of measuring electronics. As a result, the range of application of wire-mesh sensors is enhanced being capable to investigate two-phase gas-liquid and slurry flows as well as gas-liquid-liquid three-phase flow problems through high-speed flow imaging.

ANP; PETROBRAS, FINEP / Escoamentos multifásicos estão presentes não somente em diversos processos da natureza, mas também são muito comuns em diversas atividades industriais, como na exploração, produção e transporte de petróleo e gás. Na produção de petróleo, a mistura multifásica de gás, petróleo e água é frequentemente encontrada fluindo através de colunas e risers de produção. Nos últimos anos muito progresso no desenvolvimento e aplicação de técnicas de medição em escoamentos multifásicos foi realizado cujo intuito é quantificar com exatidão, prever e/ou controlar o fluxo de misturas multifásicas. Em especial técnicas de imageamento do escoamento multifásico estão em foco atualmente. Sensores de malha de eletrodos (wire-mesh sensors) são dispositivos que produzem imagens da distribuição das fases na seção transversal de uma tubulação com alta resolução espacial e temporal. Em estudos anteriores a utilização desse sensor é explorada em diversas aplicações em escoamentos bifásicos (predominantemente do tipo gás-líquido). O princípio de funcionamento do sensor é baseado na medição de uma única propriedade elétrica (condutividade ou permissividade) da mistura multifásica. Portanto, o objetivo deste trabalho é a aplicação da técnica wire-mesh para visualização de escoamentos multifásicos em alta velocidade para condições de escoamentos diferentes daquelas utilizados até o momento, bem como prover a técnica com melhorias, adicionando a capacidade de operar em dupla modalidade (medição simultânea condutiva/capacitiva). Assim, novos algoritmos e rotinas de processamento de dados para a investigação de escoamentos gás-líquido e sólido-líquido (suspensão) foram desenvolvidos e testados. A fim de continuar com o aprimoramento da técnica xiii de medição, uma nova eletrônica capaz de medir simultaneamente a permissividade e condutividade através da medição (vetorial) de amplitude e fase é introduzido. Além disso, um algoritmo baseado em um modelo da permissividade elétrica complexa realiza a fusão dos dados de condutividade e permissividade gerados pela técnica desenvolvida. Assim, esta fusão permite obter distribuições individuais das frações de fase de misturas de óleo-água-gás. A principal contribuição deste trabalho no campo de medição e investigação de escoamentos multifásicos é, por conseguinte, o desenvolvimento e aplicação soluções em software e processamento de dados para extração de parâmetros do fluxo multifasico a partir de dados do sensor wire-mesh, bem como a melhoria no sistema de medição com adoção de medidas vetoriais. Desta forma, a gama de aplicação do sensor wire-mesh é ampliada, permitindo a investigação de escoamentos gás-líquido e gás-sólido, assim como escoamentos trifásicos gás-líquido-líquido através de visualização em alta velocidade da distribuição de fases em escoamentos. / Multiphase flows are present not only in nature but also are very common in industrial activities such as in exploration, production and transport of oil and gas. In oil production, the mixture of gas, oil and water is often found streaming through production columns and flow risers. A lot of progress has been made in recent years in the development and application of measurement techniques applied to multiphase flow measurement in order to accurately quantify, predict and control the flow of multiphase mixtures. Especially, high-speed imaging of multiphase flows has received much attention in recent years. Wire-mesh sensors are flow-imaging devices and allow the investigation of multiphase flows with high spatial and temporal resolution. In the past, such sensors have found widespread application in gas-liquid flows. Its operating principle is based on measurement of a single electrical property (conductivity or permittivity) of flowing mixture. The objective of this work is the application of the wire-mesh technique for high-speed multiphase flow imaging in different flow conditions as applied so far, as well as the further development of this technique by adding the capability of dual-modality (simultaneous conductive/capacitive) operation. Hence, novel routines and data processing algorithms for the investigation of two-phase flows of the type gas-liquid and solid-liquid (slurry) were developed and tested. As a step towards the further development of the wire-mesh sensor technique, a novel dual- modality electronics being able to simultaneously evaluate the conductivity and permittivity component of a fluid through vector measurements (amplitude and phase) is introduced. Further, a model-based algorithm to fuse the data of dual-modality wire xi mesh sensor is developed to obtain individual phase fraction distributions in gas-oil- water three-phase flows. Hence, this thesis’ main contribution to the field of flow measurement and investigation is the development and application of software solutions for extracting flow parameters from wire-mesh sensor data, as well as the improvement in the hardware of measuring electronics. As a result, the range of application of wire-mesh sensors is enhanced being capable to investigate two-phase gas-liquid and slurry flows as well as gas-liquid-liquid three-phase flow problems through high-speed flow imaging.

This thesis describes the first application of ultra-fast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) towards the characterisation of bubbly flow systems. The principle goal of this study is to provide a hydrodynamic characterisation of a model bubble column using drift-flux analysis by supplying experimental closure for those parameters which are considered difficult to measure by conventional means. The system studied consisted of a 31 mm diameter semi-batch bubble column, with 16.68 mM dysprosium chloride solution as the continuous phase. This dopant served the dual purpose of stabilising the system at higher voidages, and enabling the use of ultra-fast MRI by rendering the magnetic susceptibilities of the two phases equivalent. Spiral imaging was selected as the optimal MRI scan protocol for application to bubbly flow on the basis of its high temporal resolution, and robustness to fluid flow and shear. A velocimetric variant of this technique was developed, and demonstrated in application to unsteady, single-phase pipe flow up to a Reynolds number of 12,000. By employing a compressed sensing reconstruction, images were acquired at a rate of 188 fps. Images were then acquired of bubbly flow for the entire range of voidages for which bubbly flow was possible (up to 40.8%). Measurements of bubble size distribution and interfacial area were extracted from these data. Single component velocity fields were also acquired for the entire range of voidages examined. The terminal velocity of single bubbles in the present system was explored in detail with the goal of validating a bubble rise model for use in drift-flux analysis. In order to provide closure to the most sophisticated bubble rise models, a new experimental methodology for quantifying the 3D shape of rising single bubbles was described. When closed using shape information produced using this technique, the theory predicted bubble terminal velocities within 9% error for all bubble sizes examined. Drift-flux analysis was then used to provide a hydrodynamic model for the present system. Good predictions were produced for the voidage at all examined superficial gas velocities (within 5% error), however the transition of the system to slug flow was dramatically overpredicted. This is due to the stabilising influence of the paramagnetic dopant, and reflects that while drift-flux analysis is suitable for predicting liquid holdup in electrolyte stabilised systems, it does not provide an accurate representation of hydrodynamic stability. Finally, velocity encoded spiral imaging was applied to study the dynamics of single bubble wakes. Both freely rising bubbles and bubbles held static in a contraction were examined. Unstable transverse plane vortices were evident in the wake of the static bubble, which were seen to be coupled with both the path deviations and wake shedding of the bubble. These measurements demonstrate the great usefulness for spiral imaging in the study of transient multiphase flow phenomena.

abstract: Efficiency of components is an ever increasing area of importance to portable applications, where a finite battery means finite operating time. Higher efficiency devices need to be designed that don't compromise on the performance that the consumer has come to expect. Class D amplifiers deliver on the goal of increased efficiency, but at the cost of distortion. Class AB amplifiers have low efficiency, but high linearity. By modulating the supply voltage of a Class AB amplifier to make a Class H amplifier, the efficiency can increase while still maintaining the Class AB level of linearity. A 92dB Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) Class AB amplifier and a Class H amplifier were designed in a 0.24um process for portable audio applications. Using a multiphase buck converter increased the efficiency of the Class H amplifier while still maintaining a fast response time to respond to audio frequencies. The Class H amplifier had an efficiency above the Class AB amplifier by 5-7% from 5-30mW of output power without affecting the total harmonic distortion (THD) at the design specifications. The Class H amplifier design met all design specifications and showed performance comparable to the designed Class AB amplifier across 1kHz-20kHz and 0.01mW-30mW. The Class H design was able to output 30mW into 16Ohms without any increase in THD. This design shows that Class H amplifiers merit more research into their potential for increasing efficiency of audio amplifiers and that even simple designs can give significant increases in efficiency without compromising linearity. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Electrical Engineering 2013

Orientador: Luiz Felipe Mendes de Moura / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecanica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-21T14:04:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Belo_FranciscoAntonio_D.pdf: 47396549 bytes, checksum: f9c5db83bcca1df5d676d8d6f0063095 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 / Resumo: Apresentam-se modelagem e métodos experimentais para validação da análise eletrônica aplicada à escoamentos multifásicos. Baseia-se no comportamento da amostra em relação ao campo eletromagnético e de sua identificação através de uma trandução eletrônica. Organiza-se os fundamentos da resposta da matéria com o campo eletromagnético e, a partir destas, os princípios das células transdutoras. A eletrônica de transdução consiste de uma técnica de processamento eletrônico analógico bem integrada a unidade sensora de modo a permitir a obtenção de resultados experimentais próximos dos valores calculados, até freqüências razoavelmente altas, comparadas às utilizadas em trabalhos similares. Uma técnica de guarda permite uma boa localização do campo de medidas da amostra. Foram desenvolvidos protótipos de laboratórios, propostos métodos de aferição e analisados as respostas simuladas e reais de diversos tipos de escoamento bifásico gás-líquido. Os resultados obtidos apontam para a viabilidade da utilização do método experimental proposto para a aplicação em um sistema de tomografia com processamento tipo paralelo / Abstract: Modeling and experimental method to validation of the electronic analyses by conduction and polarization applied to multiphase flow are presented. It is based on the behavior of the sample with electromagnetic waves and it identification by electronic transducer. An overview of answer of sample with the field is implemented, following the principie of the transducer cell. The electronic transducer consists in an analog electronic processing integrated to unit sensor in order to approximate the calculated and experimental data until high frequency, comparative with similar application. A guard technique permit a good localization of the sample. Laboratory prototype was developed, calibration method was proposed and simulated and real two-phase flows were analyzed. The obtained results show the capability of the proposed measurement system to be applied to the two-phase tomography with parallel processing / Doutorado / Termica e Fluidos / Doutor em Engenharia Mecânica

Dans un contexte de protection des biens et des personnes, le CEA DAM s’intéresse aux mousses aqueuses pour leur capacité à confiner une détonation.D’une part, le but est d’atténuer les effets de souffle liés à la détonation d’un engin explosif. D’autre part, il est souhaitable de ralentir ou de capturer les particules solides, potentiellement nocives, qui pourraient être dispersées.L’objectif de cette thèse est de comprendre les phénomènes physiques sous-jacents à ces deux problématiques, au travers de la réalisation d’expériences et de leur modélisation numérique.Les mousses aqueuses sont des milieux diphasiques, assemblages de bulles de gaz encapsulées dans une matrice de films liquides et de Bords de Plateau.Cette étude se concentre sur les mousses communément dites sèches, i.e. dont la fraction volumique de liquide est inférieure à 5%. Les travaux réalisés sont présentés en trois grandes parties. La première concerne la propagation des ondes de choc dans les mousses aqueuses. Elle présente une campagne expérimentale en tube à choc, menée à l’ENSTA Bretagne, dont les résultats permettent la mise en évidence de l’influence du gaz composant la mousse sur le ralentissement et l’atténuation du front de choc.La deuxième partie s’intéresse à l’atténuation des ondes de souffle issues d’une détonation. Deux campagnes ont été conduites : l’une à l’ISAE-ENSMA en mettant en œuvre un tube à détonation rempli d’un mélange réactif gazeux, l’autre au CEA/Gramat en utilisant la détonation d’un explosif solide en champ libre. Ces deux configurations amènent à l’observation de l’atténuation des phénomènes de souffle provenant de la détonation.Le modèle numérique qui s’appuie sur un formalisme multiphasique compressible, a permis d’appréhender la phénoménologie et l’importance relative des différents mécanismes de transferts entre phases, en y incluant notamment deux étapes de fragmentation de la mousse. Les résultats expérimentaux des trois précédentes campagnes et les résultats numériques sont en très bon accord.La dernière partie concerne l’étude du ralentissement et de la capture de particules micrométriques par la mousse aqueuse. Deux campagnes ont été menées à cet effet. La première consiste à étudier la dynamique à haute vitesse d’un nuage de particules métalliques, qui a été projeté par un explosif au sein d’une mousse. A l’aide de radiographies X, la position et la forme du nuage sont analysées au cours de sa propagation. Le freinage des particules parla mousse est manifeste. La deuxième campagne quantifie le taux de particules capturées par un confinement de mousse aqueuse.Ainsi, une comparaison de la dispersion de particules métalliques micrométriques a été effectuée pour différentes tailles de confinement. Ces résultats ont permis d’attester des bonnes propriétés de capture des particules dispersées par une charge explosive dans les mousses aqueuses. / In order to improve the protection of goods and persons, the French CEA DAM is interested in aqueous foams for their ability to mitigate the detonation outcome. Two objectives are put forward. The first one is to attenuate the blast effects induced by the detonation of an explosive device. The second one is to slow down or to capture potentially harmful solid particles, which could be dispersed by the considered device.As such, the aim is to understand the underlying physics of such phenomenon. Several experiments have been undertaken and compared to a multiphase numerical modelling.Aqueous foam is a two-phase medium, composed of gaseous bubbles within a liquid matrix made of films and Plateau Borders. This study focuses on dry aqueous foams, i.e. with a liquid volumic fraction lower than 5%. The presentation of the study is divided into three parts. The first one deals with the shock wave propagation through aqueous foam. An experimental campaign on a shock tube, at ENSTA Bretagne, is presented, whose results highlight the influence of the gas which fills the cells of the foam on the shock front behavior.The second part is related to the blast wave attenuation. Two experimental campaigns were conducted: one in a detonation tube with a reactive gaseous mixture, at ISAE-ENSMA and another one, using condensed explosive, at CEA/Gramat. In both cases, the results lead to the mitigation of the detonation induced blast effects.There is a good agreement between these three experimental results and the numerical results from the multiphase model. This enables us to clarify the phenomenology and quantify the different interphase exchange, which evolve as the foam fragmentation proceeds in two steps.The last part is about the aqueous foam ability to slow down or to capture micrometric particles. Two campaigns were conducted on this subject. The first one studied the high velocity dynamics of a cloud of particles propelled by an explosive into an aqueous foam. Using X-ray radiography, both the position and the shape of the cloud are analysed during its propagation through the foam. A strong decrease in speed of the particles is observed. The second campaign aimed to quantify the particle ratio captured by an aqueous foam confinement. To that end, several sizes of aqueous foam confinement have been compared. The results show the good properties of the foam to inhibit the particle dispersal by an explosive.

This work investigates the effects of long range hydrodynamic fibre-fibre interactions on the orientation state of a semi-dilute, rigid fibre suspension flowing through a linear contracting channel under laminar flow conditions. The effects of fibre-fibre interactions are modeled mathematically, the governing equations solved numerically and the predicted results compared with experimental observations. The theoretical model is based on the assumption that the orientation state of the suspension can be completely described by a probability distribution function and that fibre-fibre interactions are random in nature, thus giving rise to a diffusion-type process. The orientation distribution evolves spatially according to a Fokker-Plank type equation using closure equations for the rotary diffusion coefficient advanced by either (i) Folgar and Tucker (J. Reinforced Plast. Comp. 3 98–119 1984) or (ii) Koch (Phys. Fluids 7(8) 2086–2088 1995). Each of these two closure models for the rotary diffusion coefficient contains an unknown empirical constant that must be determined from experiments. These were fit to experimental data along the central streamline of the contraction as a function of fibre concentration. The diffusion coefficient was found to first increase with increasing suspension concentration up to a maximum, and then decrease with concentration above this point. This non-monotonic behavior was attributed to fibre flocculation, a mechanism not considered in the relationships for the rotary diffusion coefficient. The theoretical model is then extended to predict fibre orientation over the entire plane of the contraction and the two-way momentum coupling between the fluid and fibre phases were investigated numerically. The results show that the structure of the flow field within the contraction is significantly altered when the fibre phase is considered, demonstrating the non-negligible effect of the momentum exchange between the two phases. Comparison is made between the predicted orientation state of the suspension with experimental observations over the contraction plane. Good agreement was found between the model predictions and the experimental observations except in a small region near the solid boundaries. These near wall discrepancies were attributed to an inability to correctly handle the wall boundary conditions in the fibre orientation model. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Mechanical Engineering, Department of / Graduate

In this study, a three-dimensional two-phase (air and water) numerical solver is applied to investigate free surface flows. The first component aims to improve the overall understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms that occur during the interaction between turbulent hydraulic bores and simple structures. Data collected during large-scale physical experiments based on generating dam-break waves in a horizontal rectangular channel is used for comparing to the numerical results. An extensive sensitivity analysis on numerical parameters including spatial discretization and turbulence models is presented. Quantitative comparisons of numerical and experimental time series of water surface elevations, pressure, and net streamwise force exerted on the structure are used to validate the model. In the in-depth analysis, it is demonstrated that the model is able to simulate the pertinent aspects of the flow behaviour that occur during the interaction with good agreement. The numerical impulsive force generated at initial impact shows excellent agreement with the experimental results, particularly for the larger magnitudes bores considered. Since the numerical model treats the air as an incompressible media, the level of agreement observed between the experimental and numerical results suggests that the compressibility of the air in the leading edge of the bore during the physical testing had no significant effect on the measured impulsive force. The two-phase model was also able to capture the occurrence of a second transient spike in the force exerted on the structure when the initial runup collapsed back onto the incoming flow, trapping a pocket of air in the process. The model was further applied to investigate the effect of an initially quiescent layer of water in the downstream channel section on bore propagation characteristics and the subsequent interaction with the structure. It is demonstrated that for small nonzero values of initial downstream depth a substantial increase in bore depth occurs. However, further increases in the downstream depth did not appear have any significant effects. For the greatest downstream depth simulated, a considerable reduction in the hydrodynamic force is observed as a result of a more rapid closing of the wake that develops on the leeside of the structure. The second component of the study applies the same numerical solver to investigate a novel long wave generation technique for producing laboratory-scale tsunami waves. The concept is based on removing the air from the inside of a tank with a submerged outlet at the upstream end of the basin and releasing the water in a controlled manner. A similar procedure as described above was used to calibrate the numerical parameters to experimentally-measured wave heights and periods. To model the influence of the pneumatic valves mounted on top of the upstream chamber, time-varying pressure boundary conditions are developed to regulate and control the pressure inside the tank. Quantitative and qualitative comparisons of the numerical and experimental results show good agreement and a high potential for the solver to be used for similar investigations. An analysis is performed to improve the existing understanding of the wave formation process. The model is also applied to modify test configurations that influence the waveform for which the results may be used to aid in making operating decisions for future tests or in the design of similar wave generating devices.

Orientador: Milton Mori / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Química / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T19:12:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PrietoJimenez_Natalia_M.pdf: 6938239 bytes, checksum: 6c44d3053179a676042ac55971eeb06b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Craqueamento Catalítico Fluidizado (FCC) é um processo amplamente utilizado para converter frações de hidrocarbonetos de óleos brutos de petróleo com elevado ponto de ebulição, a produtos mais valiosos tais como gasolina e gases olefínicos (alcenos). Durante as reações de craqueamento, o catalisador é desativado rapidamente devido à deposição de coque na sua superfície. Em unidades industriais de FCC, o catalisador desativado é continuamente regenerado utilizando um regenerador, conectado ao reator riser. Além da regeneração do catalisador (combustão de coque pelo contato com o ar), o regenerador FCC fornece também a energia necessária para as reações de craqueamento endotérmicas. O objetivo deste trabalho de pesquisa é simular a combustão de coque em um regenerador tridimensional, analisado variáveis de saída como concentração de carbono, temperatura, velocidade axial e radial das fases sólida e gasosa, e fração volumétrica de sólidos, mediante a técnica de Fluidodinâmica Computacional (CFD). Para isto, são utilizadas duas configurações de regenerador com dimensões e condições de contorno tomadas da literatura. Para a modelagem matemática e numérica utilizaram-se os softwares comerciais ANSYS-CFX V11 e FLUENT V12, junto com sub-rotinas desenvolvidas durante a pesquisa. Foram comparados sistemas de reação homogênea e heterogênea utilizando o modelo cinético Finite-Rate laminar, no qual as taxas de reação são determinadas pelas expressões cinéticas de Arrhenius. Do desenvolvimento das simulações obtiveram-se resultados satisfatórios que serão úteis no entendimento do complexo processo da regeneração de catalisadores para processos de FCC / Abstract: Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) is a widely used process to convert hydrocarbon fractions of crude petroleum oils with high boiling point to more valuable products such as gasoline and olefin gases (alkenes). During the cracking reactions, the catalyst is quickly deactivated due to coke deposition on its surface. In FCC industrial units, deactivated catalyst is continuously regenerated using a regenerator, connected to the riser reactor. In addition to catalyst regeneration (coke combustion by contact with air), FCC regenerator also provides the necessary energy for endothermic cracking reactions. The aim of this research was to simulate the coke combustion in a three-dimensional regenerator, analyzing output variables as coke concentration, temperature, axial and radial velocity of solid and gaseous phases, and solid volume fraction through the technique of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). For this purpose two configurations of regenerator were used with dimensions and boundary conditions taken from the literature. For mathematical and numerical modeling, the commercial software ANSYS-CFX V11 and FLUENT V12 were used, with subroutines developed during the research. Homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction systems were compared using the laminar Finite-Rate kinetic model, in which the reaction rates are determined by Arrhenius kinetic expressions. The simulation of this system produced satisfactory results that will be useful in understanding the complex process of catalyst regeneration for FCC processes / Mestrado / Desenvolvimento de Processos Químicos / Mestre em Engenharia Química

abstract: Computability of spray flows is an important issue, from both fundamental and practical perspectives. Spray flows have important applications in fuel injection, agriculture, medical devices, and industrial processes such as spray cooling. For this reason, many efforts have been devoted to experimental, computational and some theoretical aspects of spray flows. In particular, primary atomization, the process of bulk liquid transitioning to small droplets, is a central and probably the most difficult aspect of spray flows. This thesis discusses developed methods, results, and needed improvements in the modeling of primary atomization using a predictive Sauter Mean Diameter (SMD) formula. Primary atomization for round injectors and simplex atomizers is modeled using a three-step procedure. For each spray geometry, a volume-of-fluid simulation is run to resolve the trajectory of the intact liquid core. Atomization criterion is applied to the volume-of-fluid velocity field to determine atomization sites. Local droplet size is predicted at the atomization sites using the quadratic formula for Sauter Mean Diameter. Droplets with the computed drop size are injected from the atomization sites and are tracked as point-particles. A User Defined Memory (UDM) code is employed to compute steady-state Sauter Mean Diameter statistics at locations corresponding to experimental interrogation locations. The resulting Sauter Mean Diameter, droplet trajectory, and droplet velocity are compared against experimental data to validate the computational protocol. This protocol can be implemented on coarse-grid, time-averaged simulations of spray flows, and produces convincing results when compared with experimental data for pressure-atomized sprays with and without swirl. This approach is general and can be adapted in any spray geometry for complete and efficient computations of spray flows. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Mechanical Engineering 2020