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Bul. Inst. Polit. Iaşi, t. LVIII (LXII), f. 3, 2012 121<br />

resistence. The empirical coefficients D ij , C ij can be related to those in the<br />

FLUENT - CFD programme Eq. (12). The components of the resistance in<br />

these two directions and resistance terms in the horizontal direction can be<br />

designated as R h and S ho , and those in the vertical direction R v and S v . Two<br />

orthogonal horizontal directions are designated by the indices 1 and 2, and the<br />

vertical direction has the index 3.<br />

This is implemented in FLUENT by introducing temperature of 30 º C the<br />

viscosity and density of air are, respectively (18.37·10 6 Pa·s and 1.191 kg/m 3 ).<br />

Using these values we find that D 11 =D 22 =1.833·10 8 , D 33 =2.037·10 8 and<br />

C 11 =C 22 =18371, C 33 =26767.<br />

⎧Rh<br />

μ; i= j = 1,2,<br />

⎪<br />

D Rv<br />

; i j 3,<br />

ij<br />

= ⎨ μ = =<br />

⎪<br />

⎩0; i≠ j, i= 1,2,3, j = 1,2,3.<br />

(12)<br />

⎧2 ⋅ Sh0<br />

ρa; i= j = 1,2,<br />

⎪<br />

Cij = ⎨2 ⋅ Sv ρa; i= j = 3,<br />

⎪<br />

⎩0; i≠ j, i= 1,2,3, j = 1,2,3.<br />

3. Simulation<br />

The aim of this paper is to illustrate how a standard CFD package may be<br />

modified so it can be used to simulate heat and moisture processes that occur<br />

during malt drying process. The features that apply specifically to bulk dry malt<br />

are accommodated by User-Defined Functions (UDF-s) written in a high-level<br />

computer language such as C and introduce in the computer package FLUENT.<br />

A possible further outcome of the work is that it demonstrates how standard<br />

CFD codes can be modified to account for the behaviour of other drying<br />

systems such as those used for horticultural and other agricultural products.<br />

Pre-processing as a first step in CFD simulation is achieved by creating<br />

the drying zone geometry and meshes it with the GAMBIT software.<br />

Drying area is composed of three regions shown in Fig. 1, hot air input<br />

with a low moisture content, malt box region and exhaust air region with high<br />

humidity. The geometry is discretization with structured mesh and 1200000<br />

elements.<br />

Table 1<br />

Geometric dimensions<br />

Areas Length, m Width, m Height, m Thickness malt bed, m<br />

input 0.380 0.370 0.5 -<br />

malt bed 0.380 0.370 0.05 0.007<br />

output 0.380 0.370 0.3 -

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