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Numerical study on particle removal performance of pickup
head for a street vacuum sweeper
Bofu Wu *, Jinlai Men, Jie Chen
School of Mechanical English Shanghai Jiao TongUniversity，Shanghai,200240,China
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The purpo of this paper is to investigate the particle removal performance of pickup head for a street vacuum sweeper numerically. An integrated 3D numerical model was constructed bad on particle suction process in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) softw
are. The airflow through the pickup head was treated as a continuum, while particles were modeled as disperd pha. The Reynolds stress model (RSM) and discrete particle model (DPM) were chon in order to predict the air and particles flow accurately. The numerical simulation results show that the sweeper-traveling speed and the pressure drop across the pickup head have great effects on the particle removal performance. The removal efficiency of particles increas with the lower sweeper-traveling speed or the higher pressure drop, and small size particles have higher grade efficiency than that of large size particles under the same operating conditions. Moreover, the removal mass flow rate of particles increas with the higher sweeper-traveling speed. Therefore, a trade-off should be considered among high removal efficiency, low energy consumption, and high removal mass flow rate. Through the numerical simulation, the effectiveness of street vacuum sweeper for removing particles from road surface is evaluated, and an optimal operating condition is obtained. Besides, more information is generated to better understand the particle suction process of the pickup head.
Keywords: Pickup head; Particle removal performance ;CFD ;Sweeper-traveling speed Pr
essure drop
1.Introduction
Currently, there is a widespread concern over the pollution of particle matter. Dust and silt are the major sources of particle matter pollution, the removal of which therefore attracts considerable attention [1]. Street sweeping is typically practiced to
remove the accumulation of dust and silt from road surface to improve aesthetics, public healthy, and storm water quality, so it is considered as an effective pollutant control practice for many local authorities [2,3]. Pickup head is the key component of street vacuum sweeper, which is designed to pick up particles efficiently from road surface and nd them to dust collection hopper smoothly. The particle removal performance of the pickup head is the most important index for a street vacuum sweeper.
Many rearches have been performed on estimating the particle removal performance of street sweeping. For example, a study by Chang et al. [4] evaluated the effectiveness
of street sweeping and washing for controlling ambient total suspended particles by experiments, which indicated that the street sweeping and washing process was effective at removing dust and silt from urban roads. However, some rearchers such as Vaze and Chiew [5] considered that the contribution of street sweeping to environmental quality was not very clear, and may have an adver impact becau street sweepers did not pick up smaller size particles effectively. Kang and Stenstorm [6] studied the street sweeping effectiveness as a stormwater management practice by using statistical power analysis. They pointed out that the effect of street sweeping should not be underestimated becau some previous rearches were bad on insufficient data. Therefore, new methods were needed to evaluate the street sweeping effectiveness.
光棍节活动As the particle removal performance for street vacuum sweeper varies bad on sweeping technology, operating conditions, sweeping frequency, street dirt loading and particle size distribution [7], it is necessary to develop a repeatable and reliable method to calculate the particle removal performance of pickup head for a street vacuum sweeper. In order to evaluate the particle removal performance of pickup head, engineers generally
祝福父母的话concentrate on two parameters, the sweeper-traveling speed and the pressure drop across the pickup head. Their influences on the particle removal efficiency and the particle removal mass flow rate directly relate to the performance of the street vacuum sweeper. Chen et al. [8] investigated the influence of sweeper structure and sweeper-traveling speed on the particle removal performance by experiments. They found that the wing plate of pickup head and the sweeper-traveling speed had great influence on the critical pickup velocity of particles. Meanwhile, they analyzed the relationship of the particle pickup velocities and the airflow rates.
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With the rapid development of the computer technology, the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been successfully adopted to study various industrial pneumatic conveying process [9,10]. Although many works have studied the particle removal performance by experiments over the past decades, few works considered the particle removal performance of pickup head using CFD. Xu et al. [11] conducted a 3D numerical simulation on the flow field of pickup head and gas system for a highway mechanical sweeper. They analyzed the interaction between the pickup system and the filter system,
and optimized the combined system bad on numerical results. Zeng et al. [12] employed the CFD technology to simulate the flow field of pickup head. The study showed that the performance of street sweeping was improved significantly by changing the structure of pickup head, and the numerical simulation proved that the CFD was an effective tool to calculate the flow field characteristics of pickup head. However, the works did not account for the influence of particles on the flow field during the investigation, so the particle removal efficiency and the particle removal mass flow rate cannot be obtained. More importantly, influences of the sweeper-traveling speed and the pressure drop, which are the most important parameters, should not be neglected while modeling the performance of pickup head.
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