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Towards a robust CFD model for aeration tanks for sewage treatment – a lab-scale study

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Author	Karpinska, Anna M. Bridgeman, John
Abstract	Detailed insight into the hydrodynamics of aeration tanks is of crucial importance for improvements in treatment efficiency, optimization of the process design and energy-efficient operation. These factors have triggered increasing interest in the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to evaluate performance of wastewater treatment systems. Whilst factors such as incorrect input assumptions, poor model choice and excessive simplifications have been recognized as potential sources of output errors, there remains a need to identify the most robust strategy to faithfully simulate aeration tank performance. Therefore, the focus of this work was to undertake rigorous transient simulations of the hydrodynamics and oxygen mass transfer in a lab-scale aeration tank in order to work towards the development of robust modeling guidelines for activated sludge systems. Unlike most previous CFD analyses of aeration systems, the work reported here employed the shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model to account for the turbulent interactions between the phases inducing bubble breakup and/or coalescence, and as a consequence, promoting the formation of bubbles of different sizes and shapes. The results obtained were compared with those arising from an analysis using the standard () model – and assuming fixed bubble diameter- the most common CFD modeling framework used within the wastewater modeling community. Model validation was achieved using acoustic Doppler velocimetry and particle image velocimetry techniques, and experimentally derived oxygen mass transfer data. Limitations of both turbulence models used and modeling assumptions concerning bubbly flow are discussed. The benefits of the SST turbulence model are demonstrated, but the need to balance the increased computational expense of this approach compared to the model and, indeed, bubble flow modeling are recognized. Thus, this paper presents the first rigorous analysis of turbulence model and bubble flow generation models together for activated sludge system optimization.Abbreviations: ADV: Acoustic Doppler velocimetry; AS: Activated sludge; ASM1: Activated Sludge Model No. 1; BOD: Biochemical oxygen demand; CCD: Charge-coupled device; CFD: Computational fluid dynamics; COD: Chemical oxygen demand; CPU: Central processing unit; DO: Dissolved oxygen; GCI: Grid convergence index; HPC: High performance computing; IAC: Interfacial area concentration; MRF: Multiple reference frame; MLSS: Mixed liquor suspended solids; PBM: Population balance models; PIV: Particle image velocimetry; PST: Phase-space thresholding; RAM: Random access memory; RANS: Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes; SNR: Signal-to-noise-ratio; SST: Shear stress transport
Starting Page	371
Ending Page	395
Page Count	25
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ISSN	19942060 1997003X
DOI	10.1080/19942060.2017.1307282
Journal	Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Publisher Date	2017-04-03
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Aeration CFD Eulerian two-fluid model Mixing Oxygen transfer PIV
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Modeling and Simulation

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