Energy budget of cold and hot gas-solid fluidized beds through CFD-DEM simulations

Direct energy budget is carried out for both cold and hot flow in gas-solid fluidization systems. First, the energy paths are proposed from thermodynamic viewpoints. Energy consumption means total power input to the specific system, and it can be decomposed into energy retention and energy dissipation. Energy retention is the variation of accumulated mechanical energy in the system, and energy dissipation is the energy converted to heat by irreversible processes. Then based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) framework, different energy terms are quantified from the specific flow elements of fluid cells and particles as well as their interactions with the wall. In order to clarify the energy budget, it is important to identify which system is studied: the particle-fluid system or the particle sub-system. For the cold flow, the total energy consumption of the particle sub-system can well indicate the onset of bubbling and turbulent, while the variation of local energy consumption terms can reflect the evolution of heterogeneous structures. For the hot flow, different heat transfer mechanisms are analyzed and the solver is modified to reproduce the experimental results. The impact of the heat transfer mechanisms and heat production on energy consumption is also investigated. The proposed budget method has proven to be energy-conservative and easy to conduct, and it is hopeful to be applied to other multiphase flow systems. (c) 2023 Chinese Society of Particuology and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.