Simulation study on interaction coefficient of DEM in non–spherical large size (5

Yang, D., Wang, Y., Li, J., Wang, Q., Wang, Y., & Yu, Y. (2020). Simulation study on interaction coefficient of DEM in non–spherical large size (5–30mm) coal particles. Particuology, 53, 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2020.03.001

Simulation study on interaction coefficient of DEM in non–spherical large size (5–30 mm) coal particles

Daolong Yang ^{a b *}, Yanxiang Wang ^{a b *}, Jianping Li ^c, Qingkai Wang ^b, Yuntao Wang ^a, Yanting Yu ^a

a School of Mechareonic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
b State Key Laboratory of Process Automation in Mining & Metallurgy / Beijing Key Laboratory of Process Automation in Mining & Metallurgy, Beijing 102600, China
c School of Mechatronic Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China

10.1016/j.partic.2020.03.001

Volume 53, December 2020, Pages 142-153

Received 26 November 2018, Revised 3 January 2020, Accepted 23 March 2020, Available online 30 May 2020, Version of Record 16 December 2020.

E-mail: ydl_726@163.com; wyx_1102@163.com

Highlights

• Obtaining the coal particle shape model and its interaction coefficient.

• Adopting a particle overlap method to describe the contact between particles.

• Establishing a contact model of coal particles.

• Establishing a mathematical model of the coal particle shape characteristics.

• Simulating particle model by adopting a multi-index mixed orthogonal experiment.

Abstract

The pneumatic conveying system of coal particles can greatly reduce the dust and improve the environmental quality at underground mining workface and the surrounding of coal enterprises. The particle shape and the interaction coefficients between particles and the contact surface play important roles in the pneumatic conveying and CFD–DEM simulation. In order to build the semblable shape models and obtain the accurate interaction coefficients of large coal particles, this article establishes the contact model by the particle overlap method and describes the mathematical model of the shape characteristics for large coal particle. The particle models are simulated by adopting the multi-index mixed orthogonal experiments. The accumulation density, the porosity and the error between simulation and experiment are taken as the indexes, and the particle models and the particle contact coefficients are taken as the orthogonal test factors. As a result, three more accurate particle models and their interaction coefficients are obtained, which provide the model basis for the pneumatic conveying of large coal particles.

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Keywords

Non-spherical particle; DEM; Particle shape; Large size particle; Orthogonal experiment

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