IMPROVEMENT OF THE SECURITY SYSTEM AGAINST POLLUTANTS USING A CIRCULAR CONE

Abstract

This study focuses on the improvement of a security system against the pollutants dispersing from Industrial chimneys. In order to simulate the system, we study numerically a turbulent flow generated by a heated open cone at the extremities. Different control parameters were used to improve the thermal and dynamic behavior of the considered flow. In this study, the interaction of pollutants with its surrounding environment simulated by the cone walls was investigated. This study was focused on convection, which is natural, turbulent, steady, 2-D, incompressible flow passing through a vertical conical channel with a heated source at the center of the cone inlet that performed uniform heating at a constant temperature. The interior of the conical wall channel was reheated via the thermal radiation emitted by the hot source. The studied system was mathematically presented by the continuity, Navier stokes, energy and K-epsilon equations. The computational fluid dynamics analysisand ANSYS-FLUENT software were used. The optimal cone can provide further control of the pollutants velocity at the exit. The thermal and dynamic profiles exhibitedgood stability and homogeneity at the cone exit.