Kavitha Nagarasampatti Palani, Assistant Professor, Corresponding author, Naveen kumar Saravanakumar
Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, Kancheepuram, India.
CFD modeling of jet mixing to study the mixing performance and sludge Prevention in crude oil tanks
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Abstract
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed using FLUENT 18.1to study the
hydrodynamics in jet mixer for the prevention of sludge in a large storage tank containing crude
oil. Eulerian approach was used to predict the flow behavior of sludge and k-e model also used to
analyze the turbulence in the storage tank. The parameters such as velocity, time, nozzle head in
single and time, nozzle head angle position in multi jet were analyzed. The velocity at 30ms -1 , the
mixing pattern was appreciably good and the profile obtained was fully developed at the bottom.
The profile developed in multi jet with various angle position also verified. RANS formulation
for numerical analysis also verified in which the amount at all points were not exceeding 300
which was appreciable in modeling.