An optimized CFD-DEM method for particle collision and retention analysis of two-phase flow in a reduced-diameter pipe

With the development of coal mining, the use of elbows has diversified the forms of underground backfill pipelines, which has inevitably complicated the transportation characteristics of filling slurry in the pipeline, thus affecting the entire backfilling system. The objective of this study is to numerically investigate the running state of cemented paste backfilling (CPB) slurry and coarse particles at different velocities by transporting in bend pipes. To better understand the transportation state of CPB slurry in pipeline, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model—mixture model was developed to study the transportation of CPB slurry. The volume distribution of coarse particles in slurry under different pipe types and different flow rates, as well as the velocity profiles of slurry at different positions, were simulated and analyzed, and the pressure losses under different pipe types were compared. The results show that the distribution of coarse particles varies with the tube type, and the effect of coarse particles on the position of tube wall changes with the increase in velocity. The high-speed zone of CPB slurry will move toward the outer wall of the elbow with the increase in velocity. The pressure loss of CPB slurry in the vertical–horizontal pipeline is larger than that in the horizontal–vertical pipeline, and the difference is larger in the bend section. This study provides a theoretical and meaningful reference for CPB slurry backfilling operations in different bends.

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Numerical Study on Transportation of Cemented Paste Backfill Slurry in Bend Pipe

Numerical Simulation on Gas-Solid Two-Phase Flow in Horizontal Pneumatic Conveying Pipe Based on DPM Model

In this paper, a mathematical model for the pneumatic transport of micron silica particles in the dust removal pipeline is established, and the gas-solid two-phase flow in the pipeline is numerically simulated. This paper is mainly based on the FLUENT fluid simulation module in ANSYS WORKBENCH to simulate the motion behavior of particles in the pipeline, and obtained the penetration rate (particle deposition rate in pneumatic conveying) of silica particles in the horizontal straight pipe under different gas flow rates. In the numerical simulation, the influence of particle diameter, shape, lift and other factors on silica particles was considered. Under a large number of simulation conditions, the movement laws of micron silica particles in horizontal pipe pneumatic transport were obtained, and the influence of the above factors on the movement laws of the particles were determined.

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Numerical simulation of pneumatic conveying characteristics of micron particles in horizontal pipe