Experiment and simulation of diffusion of micron-particle in porous ceramic vessel

Abstract The general behavior of micron-particles in the inner domain of porous ceramic vessel was simulated by computational fluid dynamics software in terms of sampling experimental data. The results show that there is an optimum porosity of 0.32 to get a higher efficiency and lower pressure drop during filtration. According to the results of simulation and experiment, it is evident that lower inlet velocity can maintain lower pressure drop and obtain higher collection efficiency and inlet concentration also has a crucial influence on the collection efficiency. The collection efficiency of equipment increases significantly with the increase of inlet concentration when the inlet concentration is less than 6.3 g/m 3 , but it gradually tends to be stable in the range of 97.3%-99.7% when the inlet concentration is over this concentration.