Modeling of air-assisted spray breakup of urea-water solution using a volume-of-fluid method

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  • Amit Naik
  • Markus Höltermann
  • Eric Lauer
  • Stefan Blodig
  • Friedrich Dinkelacker

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  • MAN Energy Solutions
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)553-576
Seitenumfang24
FachzeitschriftAtomization and Sprays
Jahrgang29
Ausgabenummer6
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2019

Abstract

Spray breakup is an important phenomenon for the injection of a urea-water solution in selective catalytic reduction systems for efficient reduction of NOx from diesel engine exhaust gas. The resulting spray distribution of the urea-water solution has a great effect on the efficiency of the SCR system and possibly determines the formation of urea deposits. For air-assisted liquid breakup in a hot gas, the volume-of-fluid (VOF) simulation model is suitable to capture the interface between the liquid and gaseous fluids. A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics modeling for air-assisted spray breakup of the urea-water solution was conducted using a volume-of-fluid method. A second order high-resolution interface capturing convection discretization scheme was applied to capture the interface between phases. A sharpening factor was used to reduce the numerical diffusion of the ligaments. An algorithm was written, which scans the ligaments from the running simulation at the predetermined time interval and export their properties. The simulation facilitated detailed investigation of spray characteristics, e.g., spray penetration, spray angle, droplet spectrum, and the possibility of deposit formation on the injector. The spray characteristics from VOF simulations were in good agreement with the high-speed shadowgraphy measurements performed at a hot gas test-rig.

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Modeling of air-assisted spray breakup of urea-water solution using a volume-of-fluid method. / Naik, Amit; Höltermann, Markus; Lauer, Eric et al.
in: Atomization and Sprays, Jahrgang 29, Nr. 6, 2019, S. 553-576.

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Naik A, Höltermann M, Lauer E, Blodig S, Dinkelacker F. Modeling of air-assisted spray breakup of urea-water solution using a volume-of-fluid method. Atomization and Sprays. 2019;29(6):553-576. doi: 10.1615/atomizspr.2019030987
Naik, Amit ; Höltermann, Markus ; Lauer, Eric et al. / Modeling of air-assisted spray breakup of urea-water solution using a volume-of-fluid method. in: Atomization and Sprays. 2019 ; Jahrgang 29, Nr. 6. S. 553-576.
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