Modeling Mass Transfer in Hydraulic Conveying of Salt Particles Using CFD-DEM Numerical Simulation

Hydraulic conveying of particulate solids is a common transportation method widely used in various fields and industries, such as the energy, pharmaceutical and agricultural. In most of hydraulic conveying systems there is neither mass transfer interaction nor dissolution of the particulate solids into the conveying fluid phase, mainly due to design considerations and the fact that the solids production processes are commonly separated from the transportation procedures. Nonetheless, there are processes which involve dissolution of the solid into the continuous phase, and result in a significant change in the two phase flow dynamics. One example which is being investigated in this research is the conveyance of salt particles via an unsaturated brine mixture. [ from the text]