Trickling bed biofilters (or biotrickling filters, BTFs) are biological systems for polluted air treatment. Hydrodynamics of BTFs, and reactors in general, is of paramount importance for obtaining good performances. In fact, a non-uniform distribution of the pollutant into the bed brings to dead zones or bypass which reduce the bed working volume and, therefore, cause low removal efficiencies. The paper presents the preliminary results obtained regarding the aeraulic behavior of a BTF pilot plant with seashells as packing material. Experimental results of bed void fraction and pressure drop at several flow rates were used to obtain Ergun equation coefficients for dry bed. A numerical simulation of the reactor flow field carried out with a commercial CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) code, validated by the means of velocity measurements made with a Hot Wire Anemometer (HWA) completed the analysis of the reactor hydrodynamics.
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Titolo: | Aeraulic behaviour of a biotrickling filter pilot plant: experiments and simulations |
Autori: | V., Torretta; M., Raboni; Rada, Elena Cristina; Ragazzi, Marco; S., Copelli |
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Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | Proceedings of the 6th international conference on manufacturing science and education |
Luogo di edizione: | Sibiu |
Casa editrice: | Editura Universitatii Lucian Blaga |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2013 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/97288 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04.1 Saggio in atti di convegno (Paper in proceedings) |