Jet agitation is known as a maintenance-free stirring technique for nuclear wastewater treatment and demonstrates great potential in transport of radioactive particles.Removal processes of horizontal sediment beds dri...Jet agitation is known as a maintenance-free stirring technique for nuclear wastewater treatment and demonstrates great potential in transport of radioactive particles.Removal processes of horizontal sediment beds driven by impinging jets were experimentally investigated using image capture and processing technique.The beds were composed of heavy fine particles with particle density ranging from 3700 to 12600 kg·m^(-3) and particle diameter from 5 to 100 μm.The jet Reynolds number varied between 4300 and 9600.The single-phase large eddy simulation method was used for calculating both jet flow characteristics and wall shear stresses.The effects of jet strength,particle density,particle diameter,and bed thickness on bed mobility in terms of the critical Shields numbers were considered.Specifically,the critical Shields number was found to be intricately related to properties of particles,and independent of jet intensity.A new Shields number curve for stainless-steel particles was found,and a model was proposed to predict the transport rate of thin beds,with R^(2)=0.96.展开更多
文摘Jet agitation is known as a maintenance-free stirring technique for nuclear wastewater treatment and demonstrates great potential in transport of radioactive particles.Removal processes of horizontal sediment beds driven by impinging jets were experimentally investigated using image capture and processing technique.The beds were composed of heavy fine particles with particle density ranging from 3700 to 12600 kg·m^(-3) and particle diameter from 5 to 100 μm.The jet Reynolds number varied between 4300 and 9600.The single-phase large eddy simulation method was used for calculating both jet flow characteristics and wall shear stresses.The effects of jet strength,particle density,particle diameter,and bed thickness on bed mobility in terms of the critical Shields numbers were considered.Specifically,the critical Shields number was found to be intricately related to properties of particles,and independent of jet intensity.A new Shields number curve for stainless-steel particles was found,and a model was proposed to predict the transport rate of thin beds,with R^(2)=0.96.
