Cardiff University | Prifysgol Caerdydd ORCA
Online Research @ Cardiff 
WelshClear Cookie - decide language by browser settings

Modelling of flow, transport and disinfection kinetics in contact tanks

Angeloudis, Athanasios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5021-3643, Falconer, Roger Alexander ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5960-2864, Kim, Dongjin and Stoesser, Thorsten ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-9793 2014. Modelling of flow, transport and disinfection kinetics in contact tanks. Proceedings of the ICE - Water Management 167 (9) , pp. 532-546. 10.1680/wama.13.00045

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Results of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of flow, transport processes and pathogen inactivation in contact tanks are presented. The three-dimensional numerical simulations are first validated using data from a previously completed laboratory experiment and velocity and conservative tracer transport data are available for comparison. The good agreement between CFD and experimental data confirms that the model reproduces accurately hydrodynamics and tracer transport processes. The analysis of the results reveals that the flow in the tank features extensive three-dimensionality, which is attributed to the current inlet configuration. Pathogen inactivation simulations show that complex flow in the tank affects the disinfection performance negatively. The potential for tank optimisation is examined by way of additional simulations featuring varying inlet designs, where it is shown that optimisation of inlet condition enhances the performance of the tank in terms of pathogen inactivation level for the same disinfectant dosage or the possibility of disinfectant dosage reduction towards reduced disinfection by-product production.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Engineering
Subjects: T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
ISSN: 1741-7589
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 09:44
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59832

Citation Data

Cited 10 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item Edit Item