Journal of Southwest Petroleum University(Science & Technology Edition) ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (2): 164-175.DOI: 10.11885/j.issn.1674-5086.2021.08.18.01

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Screening Mechanism of the Solid-liquid Mixture Vibration Screen

FANG Pan1,2,3, LU Xiaogang1,2, SHI Shuangquan1,2, PENG Huan1,2, HOU Yongjun1,2   

  1. 1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China;
    2. MOE Key Laboratory of Oil & National Gas Equipment, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China;
    3. National Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China;
    4. Sichuan Science and Technology Resource Sharing Service Platform of Oil and Gas Equipment Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
  • Received:2021-08-18 Published:2024-05-11

Abstract: Vibration screening technology is a means for the separation of solid-liquid mixture, which is widely used in solid phase control of drilling fluid, river mud treatment and dehydration of coal mine. However, the existing research lacks sufficient comprehension for the vibration screening mechanism of solid-liquid mixture, which limits the improvement of screening efficiency of vibration equipment. In order to solve this problem, the CFD-DEM (Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method) coupling method is used to study the screening mechanism of solid-liquid mixture vibration screen. Firstly, Hertz-Mindlin with JKR Cohesion model is used to simulate the collision characteristics between wet particles. Secondly, porous media is used to describe the hole characteristics of screen. Then the linear vibration trajectory of the screen is simulated by using dynamic mesh. Finally, dynamic characteristics of granular materials and flow characteristics of liquid are analyzed, and the effect of vibration frequency and amplitude on the screening efficiency of solid-liquid mixture are compared. The results show that screening efficiency of solid-liquid mixture can be improved by increasing the amplitude and frequency appropriately, but when $A$>3.0 mm and $f$>22.3 Hz, the effect of vibration screen on screening efficiency of solid-liquid mixture is weakened; when $A$≤3.0 mm and $f$≤22.3 Hz, the screening efficiency of solid-liquid mixture is more sensitive to the change of amplitude, and that of the vibration frequency next to it. The passing area of solid-liquid mixture is mainly concentrated in the area where the length of the screen $L$<20$\%$.

Key words: omputational fluid dynamics, porous media, screening mechanism, numerical simulation, granular material, vibration screen

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