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CFD Modeling of Fixed Photocatalytic Inserts for a Continuous Flow Reactor for Water Disinfection
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David Misstear
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Laurence Gill
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November 30, 2016
Abstract
The design of a suitable fixed photocatalytic support for water disinfection in a continuous flow reactor was researched. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to simulate the percentage of tracked particles coming into contact with the irradiated surface of different support geometries, cylindrical: conical and consecutive frusta and a spring. The number of particles striking each insert was presumed to give a good representation of the respective disinfection efficiencies of each design, as photocatalysis is effectively a surface phenomenon. It was found that a conical frustum design was more than three times as efficient as a similarly-sized conventional cylindrical insert with regard to this parameter, and arrangements of shorter frusta exhibited even more promising traits. A further regime of laboratory testing is proposed in order to determine the practical efficiency of the insert designs, which may have important applications in the solar disinfection of drinking water.
Received: 2011-5-10
Revised: 2011-7-21
Accepted: 2011-9-7
Published Online: 2016-11-30
Published in Print: 2012-1-1
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
photocatalysis;
water disinfection;
supported catalyst;
CFD;
titanium dioxide
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