Eulerian Two-Fluid Model for Aerosol Removal in Filtered Containment Venting Scrubbers

Eulerian steady one-dimensional two-fluid mass and momentum conservation equations for gas and water droplet coupled with the particle removal rate are formulated. The major flow variables are phasic velocities and pressure and they are obtained by integrating the four conservation equations and one particle removal rate along the horizontal throats of the venturi scrubbers by using the forth-order Runge-Kutta method. Popular correlations are used for the impaction parameter, the gas-to-water droplet drag coefficient and the droplet size. All the equations are integrated into one computer code named REMAERO based on the MATLAB. It is found that most particles are removed at the throat entrance as already known from the previous experiments and this is due to the particle removal rate proportional to the particle concentration. Particle removal efficiencies from the present method shows better agreement with existing experimental data than previous one-dimensional models.