Industrial Ceramic Brick Drying in Oven by CFD
The drying process is a step of ceramic brick production which requires the control of process variables to provide a final product with a porous uniform structure, reducing superficial and volumetric defects and production costs. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important tool in this proce...
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doaj-1c485aa96308425ea74ee8d6e3ef698b2020-11-24T21:45:47ZengMDPI AGMaterials1996-19442019-05-011210161210.3390/ma12101612ma12101612Industrial Ceramic Brick Drying in Oven by CFDMorgana de Vasconcellos Araújo0Antonildo Santos Pereira1Jéssica Lacerda de Oliveira2Vanderson Alves Agra Brandão3Francisco de Assis Brasileiro Filho4Rodrigo Moura da Silva5Antonio Gilson Barbosa de Lima6Postgraduate Program in Process Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58429-900, Paraíba, BrazilBaiano Federal Institute, Santa Inês, Bahia 47440-000, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Process Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58429-900, Paraíba, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Process Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58429-900, Paraíba, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Process Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58429-900, Paraíba, BrazilFederal Institute of Paraiba, Princesa Isabel, Paraíba 58015-020, BrazilPostgraduate Program in Process Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande 58429-900, Paraíba, BrazilThe drying process is a step of ceramic brick production which requires the control of process variables to provide a final product with a porous uniform structure, reducing superficial and volumetric defects and production costs. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important tool in this process control, predicting the drying physical phenomenon and providing data that improve the industrial efficiency production. Furthermore, research involving CFD brick drying has neglected the effects of oven parameters, limiting the analysis only to the bricks. In this sense, the aim of this work is to numerically study the hot air-drying process of an industrial hollow ceramic brick in an oven at 70 °C. The results of the water mass and temperature distributions inside the brick, as well as moisture, temperature, velocity and pressure fields of the oven drying air at different process times are shown, analyzed and compared with experimental data, presenting a good agreement.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/12/10/1612dryingbricktemperaturemoistureCFD |
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Morgana de Vasconcellos Araújo Antonildo Santos Pereira Jéssica Lacerda de Oliveira Vanderson Alves Agra Brandão Francisco de Assis Brasileiro Filho Rodrigo Moura da Silva Antonio Gilson Barbosa de Lima |
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Industrial Ceramic Brick Drying in Oven by CFD |
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Industrial Ceramic Brick Drying in Oven by CFD |
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Industrial Ceramic Brick Drying in Oven by CFD |
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Industrial Ceramic Brick Drying in Oven by CFD |
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Industrial Ceramic Brick Drying in Oven by CFD |
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industrial ceramic brick drying in oven by cfd |
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The drying process is a step of ceramic brick production which requires the control of process variables to provide a final product with a porous uniform structure, reducing superficial and volumetric defects and production costs. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important tool in this process control, predicting the drying physical phenomenon and providing data that improve the industrial efficiency production. Furthermore, research involving CFD brick drying has neglected the effects of oven parameters, limiting the analysis only to the bricks. In this sense, the aim of this work is to numerically study the hot air-drying process of an industrial hollow ceramic brick in an oven at 70 °C. The results of the water mass and temperature distributions inside the brick, as well as moisture, temperature, velocity and pressure fields of the oven drying air at different process times are shown, analyzed and compared with experimental data, presenting a good agreement. |
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