The concentration of domestic slurry has two advantages, it promotes resource recovery (nutrients and biomass) and saves water. But the design of a relevant sewerage requires a clear understanding of the frictional losses incurred during the transport of the slurry. This abstracts describes numerical & CFD-based methods to estimate losses while the concentrated slurry flows through circular pipes in a fully-turbulent flow. To model turbulent flows through circular pipes, one can rely on either the Newtonian Moody Charts appropriate for engineering applications or a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based analysis, made possible through the Newtonian universal law of the wall. However, our studies reveal that concentrated domestic slurry behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid, of the Herschel-Bulkley type. Therefore, the analysis of such a slurry would require modifications to both, existing engineering models and CFD methods. This abstract summarises a modified law of the wall suitable for Herschel-Bulkley fluids, which has been validated against experiments on concentrated domestic slurry. It further details possible non-Newtonian numerical engineering models that could be modified to assess frictional losses incurred by Herschel-Bulkley fluids. The latter will be a quicker and perhaps reliable alternative to computationally expensive CFD-analyses.
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Mehta, D., Radhakrishnan, A. K. T., van Lier, J., & Clemens, F. (2019). Numerical and CFD-Based Modelling of Concentrated Domestic Slurry in Turbulent Flow Through Circular Pipes. In Green Energy and Technology (pp. 528–532). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99867-1_91
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