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Comparison of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

This paper gives a comparison between the horizontal axis wind turbines, or HAWTS, and the vertical axis wind turbines, or VAWTS. The two types of wind turbines are used for different purposes. Several models of both types are presented from previous research.

Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop Model for a Shell Side of a Shell of Heat Exchanger

This paper present a two-phase pressure drop model for a in-line tube bundle for airwater mixtures flowing through an idealised shell and tube, in-line heat exchanger. The model used momentum flux and entrained liquid fraction to predict the acceleration pressure drop. The model predicts the pressure drop well using both accelaration and gravitational pressure drop deduced from data available in open literature. The model is shown to be mass flux dependence.

Characteristic study of flat spray nozzle by using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and ANSYS simulation method

Water mist sprays are used in wide range of application. However it is depend to the spray characteristic to suit the particular application. This project studies the water droplet velocity and penetration angle generated by new development mist spray with a flat spray pattern. This research conducted into two part which are experimental and simulation section. The experimental was conducted by using particle image velocimetry (PIV) method, ANSYS software was used as tools for simulation section meanwhile image J software was used to measure the penetration angle. Three different of combination pressure of air and water were tested which are 1 bar (case A), 2 bar (case B) and 3 bar (case C). The flat spray generated by the new development nozzle was examined at 9cm vertical line from 8cm of the nozzle orifice. The result provided in the detailed analysis shows that the trend of graph velocity versus distance gives the good agreement within simulation and experiment for all the pressure combination. As the...

Determine Aerodynamic Characteristics for FX63-137 Aerofoil by Using Subsonic Wind Tunnel

This paper is primarily concentrated with determining aerodynamic characteristics and choosing the best angle of attack at a maximum lift and low drag for the FX 63-137 aerofoil at a low Reynolds number and a speed of 20m/s and 30m/s, by using subsonic wind tunnel through manufacturing the aerofoil by aluminum alloy using a CNC machine. The proposed methodology is divided into several stages. Firstly, manufacturing the aerofoil using an aluminum alloy. Secondly, the testing process is carried out using subsonic wind tunnel. Thirdly, the results are displayed and compared with results produced from related works, in order to find out the best angle of attack at a maximum lift.

Experimental Study of Splitting Device for Horizontal Pipeline

The flow distribution within a reduced scale model pipeline to study and determine the best splitting device for a horizontal pipeline through experiments were conducted. In this research, five splitting devices are designed and tested on the model rig. Out of five, only one splitting device has been chosen that achieved the objective the best; to improve airflow to be a homogeneous flow in the pipe, or at least reducing and improving from the roping condition. The process of selecting the best device had been done through qualitative analysis of velocity profile and airflow distribution obtained from Pitot Tube measurements, besides the airflow pattern and behavior through PIV results.

EFFECT OF PLENUM CHAMBER DEPTH IN A SWIRLING FLUIDIZED BED

This paper presents the numerical investigation via Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) to study the effect of plenum chamber depth on air flow a distribution in a swirling fluidized bed (SFB). A total of 9 simulations were conducted for 3 plenum chamber depths of 175 mm, 350 mm and 525 mm (below the distributor) for 3 different inlets: single, double and triple inlets. Air flow distribution was analyzed based on the tangential velocity distribution ad pressure drop at the distributor outlet. Statistical parameters used in characterizing the air flow distribution were standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis together with system pressure drop. An optimum plenum chamber depth has low statistical values, implying a uniform velocity distribution inside the bed while low pressure drops are necessary to reduce energy loss in the system. The findings yield that plenum chamber with 175 mm depth with via triple inlets suffices both criteria of high uniformity and low pressure drops.

Turbulence kinetic energy performance on wind turbine blade using CFD

Wind represents the kinetic energy of the atmosphere. Wind energy is currently supplying as much as 1% of the world electricity used, and could supply as much as 20% of global electricity in power and can be created through the use of wind turbines. Wind turbine blade is the most promising technology for the production of energy by using wind energy. Good design of wind turbine blade depends on performance of increasing to generate electricity which related with drag coefficient , lift coefficient and turbulence kinetic energy. However, the efficiency of wind turbine blade could be predicted by simulation due to flow streamline on wind turbine blade. This paper discuss the result obtain from simulation in CFD using CFX on NACA 4412 and NACA 4415.

Determine spray droplets on water sensitive paper (WSP) for low pressure deflector nozzle using image J

In this study, determine of spray droplets size (SMD) using water sensitive paper (WSP) at low fluid pressure with deflector nozzle or tangential flow nozzle model Delavan AL75 and New Design Nozzle with two different type of swirl (ND2.5 A1.0 & ND2.5 B1.0). These three deflected flat sprays have used at different liquid mixing ratio. These liquid mixture ratios are pure water, 10% of lime juice + 90% of water (L10W90) and 30% of lime juice + 70% of water (L30W70). WSP is used to collect the spray droplets from nozzles. The operational liquid pressure of each nozzle is 3 bar, while air operational pressures are 3 bar and 6 bar. Then, the WSP were scanned using scanner then it was analyzed using ImageJ software. ImageJ can be used for determining the diameter of droplets size on the WSP. As the results from an experiment, the AL75 nozzle recorded the lowest Sauter mean diameter which is 193.69μm at 6 bar of pressurized air while ND2.5 A1.0 recorded the highest Sauter mean diameter which is 353.61µm at 3 bar of pressurized air. Summary from the experiment shows that the higher of droplet size is because of the lower air pressure (3 Bar). Then, increasing of liquid viscosity also increase the SMD. The orifice diameter for New Design nozzle (ND-2.5) is smaller than AL75, which are 2.5mm and 2.8mm respectively. The different nozzle design also gives effect the SMD. WSP is an alternative method to determine SMD for spray droplets with the low cost if compared to Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA).

Analysis mist spray development with Al-75 nozzle by using high speed camera

Spray nozzles are used for the industries as the cleaning, cutting, and spraying. The nozzle will came so many varieties and usually can be classified according to specific mode of atomization. The present study experimentally is to investigate the spray development for the droplet size of the water in the nozzle AL-75 by using the high-speed camera. The spray development is divided into five stage and each stage consist of time from 0 milliseconds (ms) to 32 milliseconds (ms). For this experiments, the supplied pressure has been use is 1 bar, 2 bar and 3 bar for the liquid and 1 bar, 3 bar and 6 bar for the air pressure. The experiment data were obtained from the released of the mist spray nozzle in water liquid 100%, water 90% mix with lime 10% (L10W90) and water 70% mix with lime 30% (L30W70). The results shows that for the lower pressure, the time taken for the spray to become fully development is longer compared to the higher pressure.

Study the velocity and pressure exerted in front of the filter surface in the kitchen hood system by using ANSYS

Commercial kitchen hood ventilation system is a device used to capture and filtered the plumes from cooking activities in the kitchen area. Nowadays, it is very popular in the industrial sector such as restaurant and hotel to provide hygiene food. This study focused at the KSA filter part which installed in the kitchen hood system, the purpose of this study is to identify the critical region which indicated by observing the velocity and pressure of plumes exerted at of KSA filter. It is important to know the critical location of the KSA filter in order to install the nozzle which will helps increase the filtration effectiveness. The ANSYS 16.1 (FLUENT) software as a tool used to simulate the kitchen hood systems which consist of KSA filter. The commercial kitchen hood system model has a dimension 700 mm width, 1600 mm length and 555 mm height. The system has two inlets and one outlet. The velocity of the plumes is set to be 0.235m/s and the velocity of the inlet capture jet is set to be 1.078m/s. The KSA ...