Swagatika DASH, Rahul K. SONI
Continuous fluidized bed roasters are widely utilized in industries for the oxidation of sulphide ores. This study examines a roaster with a height of 24.5 meters, a freeboard diameter of 16.85 meters, and a bed diameter of 12.5 meters, featuring a distributor with 12,300 nozzles of 6 mm diameter, allowing for two material inlets for zinc concentrate, a gas outlet for top products, and a bottom product outlet. The air is distributed through four bottom inlets, with cooling facilitated by ten coils and water injection at the bed's top. The feed comprises approximately 60% particles sized at or below 57 microns, with an initial bed height of 0.8 meters. A 3D multiphase Eulerian-Eulerian computational fluid dynamics model was employed to analyze the flow profiles of particles in both two-phase and five-phase flows. The roaster's geometry was segmented into various zones for efficiency in computation. Preliminary simulations, conducted using 2.4 million cells, demonstrated significant differences in flow profiles between two-phase and five-phase models, particularly for finer particles, highlighting the resistance larger particles exert on the flow of smaller particles.
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