Mingxuan Chen¹, Jun Jia², Baoping Zhang¹, Leiyan Han³, Mengbo Ji^3,4, Zhangtao Yu¹, Dongfang Li¹, Wenyong Wang¹, Hongjing Jia¹, Huachi Xu^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.10, pp. 3055-3074, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.051524

Abstract The rise in hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is driving the field toward the adoption of systems comprising multiple alkaline water electrolyzers. These setups present various operational modes: independent operation and multi-electrolyzer parallelization, each with distinct advantages and challenges. This study introduces an innovative configuration that incorporates a mutual lye mixer among electrolyzers, establishing a weakly coupled system that combines the advantages of two modes. This approach enables efficient heat utilization for faster hot-startup and maintains heat conservation post-lye interconnection, while preserving the option for independent operation after decoupling. A specialized thermal exchange model… More >

Jianhua Zhang^1,2, Wen Sun³, Zhijun Li^1,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.10, pp. 2893-2906, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2024.051093

Abstract Two types of tightly coupled Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) mixers were designed in this study, namely Mixer 1 integrated with an SCR catalyst and Mixer 2 arranged separately. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software was utilized to model the gas flow, spraying, and pyrolysis reaction of the aqueous urea solution in the tightly coupled SCR system. The parameters of gas flow velocity uniformity and ammonia distribution uniformity were simulated and calculated for both Mixer 1 and Mixer 2 in the tightly coupled SCR system to compare their advantages and disadvantages. The simulation results indicated that Mixer… More >

Yibao Wang, Dongsheng Wang, Yudan Xue, Dailong Shi^*, Xiaoli Zhang, Yang Chai, Bang An

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.17, No.6, pp. 1113-1127, 2021, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2021.017591

Abstract A new design of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) mixer called tornado was developed for a heavy-duty diesel engine to solve the urea deposition problem. A combination of CFD simulation and experimental studies was used to comprehensively evaluate the performance of the tornado mixer. According to the numerical simulations, this mixer can improve the front surface flow uniformity of the SCR carrier by 6.67% and the NH₃ distribution uniformity by 3.19% compared to a traditional mixer. Similarly, steady state SCR conversion efficiency test results have shown that the tornado mixer can increase the average SCR conversion More >

Di Wang¹, Guangzhao Ye¹, Jingming Mai², Xiaomin Chen¹, Yongqiang Yang^1,*, Yang Li^1,*, Xiaojun Chen¹, Jie Chen¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.123, No.3, pp. 1061-1077, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.09842

Abstract In this paper, a novel micromixer with complex 3D-shape inner units was put forward and fabricated by metal Additive Manufacturing (AM). The design of the micromixer combined the constraints of selective laser melting technology and the factors to improve mixing efficiency. Villermaux-Dushman reaction system and Compute Fluid Design (CFD) simulation were conducted to investigate the performance and the mechanism of this novel micromixer to improve mixing efficiency. The research found that the best mixing efficiency of this novel micromixer could be gained when the inner units divided fluid into five pieces with a uniform volume.… More >

M. Marigo^1,2, D. L. Cairns¹, M. Davies¹, M. Cook³,A. Ingram^2,4,5, E. H. Stitt¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.59, No.3, pp. 217-238, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.059.217

Abstract In this work the complex motion of the Turbulamixer has been measured by Multiple-Positron Emission Particle Tracking (Multiple PEPT) in order to set-up a DEM numerical model. Positron emitting radioactive tracers were attached to three of the pivot bearings on the shaft of the mixer to enable the rotation and translation of the mixer chamber to be tracked in the PEPT camera. The measured movement was mathematically reconstructed and imported into DEM in order to apply the same movement to the modelled vessel. The three-dimensional motion of particles in a vessel located in the Turbula More >

Jr-Ming Miao^1,2, Fuh-Lin Lih³, Yi-Chun Liou⁴, Hsiu-Kai Chen¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.12, No.1, pp. 33-34, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.012.033

Abstract To date, miniaturization of fluid handling and fluid analysis devices in the medicine engineering has been emerging in the interdisciplinary research field of micro-fluidics, as a result of miniaturization of the detective device to allow parallelization as well as to reduce analysis time and sample volume. Micro-total-analysis-system (μ -TAS) researches aimed at developing miniaturized and integrated ``lab-on-a-chip'' devices for biochemical analysis applications. Droplet-based micro-mixer is the one of the key components in the developing of μ-TAS. Numerical approach on the dynamic formation of water droplets in a T-type microchannel with a 200μm × 50μm rectangular cross section… More >