Numerical analysis of the effect of the suction mode in the wind force sorting of a mobile coastal debris treatment system

• Published in: Journal of material cycles and waste management Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 97 - 110
• Main Authors: Yoon, Jonghyuk, Kim, Do-Yong, Kim, Daegi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Civil Engineering; Debris; Detritus; Engineering; Environmental Management; Flow characteristics; Fuel production; Inflow; Numerical analysis; Numerical prediction; Original Article; Separation; Solid fuels; Suction; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Wind forces; Wind power; Wind force sorting system; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Coastal debris; Suction mode; Solid recovered fuel
• ISSN: 1438-4957; 1611-8227
• DOI: 10.1007/s10163-019-00920-7

Coastal debris has emerged as a serious problem of late, but it can be used to produce high-quality solid recovered fuel (SRF). In addition, a parametric study was conducted to determine the effect of changing the suction mode on the particle behavior, and the results revealed that the suction mode influences the flow characteristics inside the sorting system and determines the inflow rate and ratio. Based on these analysis results by numerical analysis, the separation efficiency of each suction mode was numerically predicted. The optimal model as B2 had the highest separation efficiency of 80.2%. These study findings will offer appropriate wind power sorting conditions according to the purpose of separating the target material from the coastal debris for solid fuel production including their next product through sorting.