Filtration model for polydisperse aerosols in gas-solid flow using granule-resolved direct numerical simulation

Abstract

An analytical framework for calculating the filtration efficiency of polydisperse aerosols in a granular bed is developed for cases where inertial impaction and interception are the principal filtration mechanisms. This framework is used to develop a model for the polydisperse single-collector efficiency from monodisperse single-collector efficiency correlations. Conceptually, the polydisperse model is developed by transforming the probability density of particle radius into a probability density of particle Stokes number that is then used to weight the monodisperse single-collector efficiency at a given Stokes number. An extension of this polydisperse filtration concept results in an analytical solution for the axial variation of polydisperse particle flux in a random three-dimensional granule configuration. In order to verify the analytical results for polydisperse particle filtration, a granule-resolved direct numerical simulation approach is coupled with Lagrangian particle tracking to simulate filtration of polydisperse aerosols in a granular bed.