Model of Reactive Transport within a Light Photocatalytic Textile
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Degrave Robin
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Cockx Arnaud
Abstract
This paper deals with the 3D-modeling of the reactive transport within a light photocatalytic textile used to decontaminate industrial effluents. The model consists of the coupling of fluid flow governing equations, species convection diffusion equations and a heterogeneous reaction equation. It is solved numerically on a Representative Volume Element (RVE) of the textile, i.e. at the microscopic scale regarding the industrial photocatalytic reactor using Comsol Multiphysics software. In a preliminary approach, the reactive transport model was first applied in a 2D simple geometry to verify its accuracy in terms of mass balance of the species. Then successive simulations using pseudo-periodic boundary conditions were performed in the RVE and the depollution efficiency along the textile length is analysed in terms of pollutant concentration. A sensitivity analysis was done to reveal the relative importance of the kinetic and hydrodynamic parameters in prediction of pollutant concentration fields in the RVE. It was found that a high adsorption rate associated with a low permeable fabric maximizes the amount of treated fluid. Finally the performances of a typical reactor composed of a stack of textiles were investigated. Results show a significant improvement of depollution efficiency of this particular configuration compared to single textiles in parallel.
Nomenclature
Fabric porosity
Fluid viscosity
Fluid density
Coverage rate
Optical fibres diameter
Mean fluid velocity
Pollutant diffusion coefficient
Adsorption rate
Desorption rate
Reaction rate
Total number of available active site
Initial volume pollutant concentration
Volume pollutant concentration
Volume concentration of degraded form pollutant
Surface pollutant concentration
Fabric permeability
Fluid pressure
Total flow rate through the photocatalytic textile
Fluid velocity
Normal vector
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