Hydrodynamics of a Bench-Scale Aerated Post Treatment Unit for Up-Flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor
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Khushbu Patel
, Antaram Sarve and Arvind Kumar Mungray
The major issues in anaerobic treatment are discharge standard accomplished by post-treatment facilities. Model tanks have been designed for post treatment of anaerobic effluents. Tracer studies by KMnO4 have been employed on model tanks to know hydrodynamics and mixing inside the tanks. The existence and arrangement of baffles in the tanks and higher tracer density can result in much more complex flow pattern which includes turbulent mixing, dead zones and short circuiting. The objective of the paper is to present the result of a numerical study undertaken to investigate the flow inside the reactor and effect of hydraulic parameters on the extent of mixing. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study was also performed on the velocity distribution within the model tanks. Thus, several 2D steady-state and time-variable numerical simulations were performed with in the model tanks geometry. Tracer transport was analyzed in case of burst of concentration. The CFD study shows how velocity, pressure and their vector notations were useful to predict the dead spaces inside the tanks which affect the mixing behavior inside the tank.
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