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3. Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Objective
3. Scope Of the Project
4. Literature Review
Leakage and Frictional Losses
Mine openings contributing to Losses
CFD Study
5. Meshing- Design of Mine geometry using Gambit
6. CFD Simulation- FLUENT Analysis
7. Results and Comparison
8. Conclusion
9. Suggestions for Future study.
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4. Objective
To Calculate Pressure and Shock Losses in Different
Mine openings using CFD Simulation Techniques.
To study the difference between the observations from
CFD software and classical formula proposed for
calculating losses in different mine configurations.
Validate that CFD simulations of shock losses have
improved the prediction and visualization of airflow
behavior through mine airways.
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5. Scope Of the Project
1. The initial phase of CFD modeling involved the
simulation of a pilot-scale model of mine geometries
which aren’t feasible to model the real-time experiment.
2. Convert the validated CFD model of the pilot design into
a scaled-up model to be used to simulate the full-scale
design.
3. CFD study is used as a replacement of experimental
simulation which require lot of time and money for a
single case study.
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6. INTRODUCTION
To ensure proper mine atmospheric environmental control,
adequate quantities of air must flow through working
sections in the mine.
The leakage losses are a serious detriment to the efficiency
of mine ventilation systems.
Proper assessment of these losses in simulating and
projecting complex ventilation systems is vital.
In recent years much attention has been paid the fan and
its prime movers, but the efficient use of the fan output in
the workings has not received an equal amount of
investigation.
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7. Sources of resistance to the flow
of a fluid in a pipe:
Viscosity of the fluid
Friction between the fluid and the pipe
internal surface
Changes in area and direction of flow
Obstructions in the path of flow
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9. Pressure Losses Due To Friction
The major part of the pressure losses in almost any type of
air-flow system.
In mechanically ventilated mines the friction losses in the
main airways often account for 70 to 90 percent of the total
pressure loss sustained in the system.
The only accurate way to determine the friction factor
for a given air-way is to compute it from pressure
drop and air quantity measurement underground.
They are therefore of considerably greater practical
importance than the shock losses as far as mines are
concerned.
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10. Where:
∆ 𝑝,𝑓 frictional air losses (Pa) f friction factor( dimension less)
D Duct Diameter(m)V Velocity
ρ Air Density (kg/m3) L Duct Length (m)
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∆ 𝑝,𝑓=
1𝑓𝐿𝑉2 𝜌
2𝐷
(Darcy- WeissbachExpression))
11. The most widely used formula for friction
pressure loss in a mine airway is the Atkinson
formula.
𝐻𝑓 =
𝐾𝐿𝑃𝑉2
𝐴
Where K= coefficient of friction(f p/8)
L=Length of the airway(m)
O=Perimeter of the airway(m)
V= Vel. Of air(m/s)
A= cross sectional area of the airway(m2
)
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12. Bureau of Mines schedule of
friction factors for mine airways
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Source: McElroy, 1935.Note: All values of K are for air weighing 0.0750
Ib/ft. Values in the table are expressed in whole numbers but must be
multiplied by 10-10 to obtain the proper K value.
13. Shock Pressure Losses
Shock losses arise from changes in direction(e.g.,
bends), changes in cross-sectional areas (e.g.,
obstructions),or changes in both (e.g., junctions and
splits).
Shock losses are independent of the roughness of
walls and therefore cannot be computed directly as
friction losses.
However, shock losses bear a constant ratio to the
velocity pressure corresponding to the mean
velocity of flow.
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14. Calculating Shock Losses
There are three methods for estimating shock losses:
METHOD 1Calculate the shock loss as a function of
the velocity head:
𝐻 𝑥 = 𝑋𝐻𝑣
where Hx is head loss due to shock, and X is an empirical shock loss
factor found by experiment.
METHOD 2Account for shock losses by increasing the
value of the friction factor K for that section of the
airway where shock losses occur. The US Bureau of
Mines’ friction factor table accounts for obstructions
and sinuosity of airways.
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15. METHOD 3 Account for shock loss by expressing a
shock loss condition as an additional length of a straight
airway to be added to the given length of the airway.
This length is known as the equivalent length, Le. With
the equivalent length method, the head loss in an airway
HL is obtained by including in the Atkinson equation the
equivalent length:
In the above equation , Le is equivalent length in ft (m).
This method is recommended for all routine mine
ventilation calculations. Hartman and Mutmansky (1982)
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𝐻𝐿 = 𝐻𝑓 + 𝐻 𝑥 =
𝐾 𝐿 + 𝐿 𝑒 𝑉2
𝐴
17. Types of Mine Openings and
Configurations Contributing to
Losses in an Underground Mine
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18. PRESSURE LOSSES ACROSS
DIFFERENT MINE OPENINGS AND
CONFIGURATION
In this study, seven configurations commonly found in
mine ventilation system are stimulated.
For all the simulations, Air density and viscosity were
considered to be 1.12 kg/m3 and 1.85 x 10-5 Pa.s
respectively.
It was assumed that airflow in the configuration was
incompressible and isothermal.
All the calculations and simulations will be performed
with a Reynolds number on the order of 105 in order to
replicate the real-life flow situation.
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19. The Mine configurations
considered for simulations are:
1. Mine tunnels
2. Round Bends
3. Junctions and Splits
4. Gradual Contraction
5. Gradual Expansion
6. Shaft Bottoms
7. Regulators
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21. WHAT IS CFD?
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is one of the
branches of fluid mechanics that uses numerical
methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems
that involve fluid flows.
Most fundamental consideration in CFD is how a
continuous fluid is treated in a discretized fashion on a
computer.
Most of the laminar flows are based on Navier-Stokes
Equation
RANS method, LES method are used for turbulent flow
More advanced codes allow the simulation of more
complex cases involving multi-phase flows
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22. DISCRETIZATION METHODS IN
CFD
Finite volume method (FVM) [ Mostly Used
for CFD Simulations]
Finite element method (FEM)
Finite difference method
Boundary element method
High-resolution schemes
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23. HOW IS THE WORKING DONE IN
CFD
Post-processing
Vector plots Line & shaded contour plots
2D & 3D surface
plots
Solver
Approximation of unknown flow
variables
Discretization
Preprocessing
Definition of the geometry of the region Definition of fluid properties
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25. CFD ANALYSIS
Two are the main assumptions to be made that can have a
strong influence in the results:
The mesh density and
The turbulence model.
The meshing process divides the simulation domain in
equally shaped volumes where the governing equations of
the fluid flow are discretized and solved. Where the
pressure or velocity gradients are expected to be high the
mesh has to be fine.
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26. Regarding Turbulence model, studies by Song and
Han (2005) , Ballesteros-Tajadura et al. (2006),
Gimbun et al. (2005) ,Zhang and Chen (2006) and
others have shown that k–epsilon model is enough
for calculations.
k–epsilon model is widely extended in these CFD
applications, and has the enormous advantage that is
not as high resource consuming as other RANS
methods.
k–epsilon turbulence model is the perfect
compromise between accuracy and calculation time
and hardware requirements
28. GAMBIT is a software package designed to help analysts
and designers build and mesh models for computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) and other scientific applications.
GAMBIT receives user input by means of its graphical
user interface (GUI).
The profiles are generated with the help of coordinates
available which have been generated.
All these mine configurations are finally assembled and
meshing is done.
29. Tunnels
Diameter: 10m
Length : 500m
Simulation domains :600,000 elements of which
170,000 are tetrahedrons
Special Requirement: 14 Tetrahedron in diameter with
10 prisms in the boundary layer
30.
31.
32. ROUNDED BEND
The 90° rounded bend 3m x 4.8m.
The geometry selected provides a radius ratio (R) of
1.0 and an aspect ratio of 0.625.
Face mapping of the volume was done in order to
mesh the configuration.
The meshing model used was Cooper mesh scheme
35. Shaft Bottom
The CFD model was made of a shaft which is 600m deep and diameter of the
shaft was 6m.
The Plat dimension was 3m height, 4 m width and was 350 m long
37. Initial Inputs
Material selected is Air.
The properties of Air is taken as follows-
Density = 1.12 kg/m3
Cp (specific heat capacity) = 1.06 J/kg K
Thermal conductivity = 0.0242 W/m K
Viscosity=1.85 x 10-5Pa.s
K-Epsilon Turbulence Model
39. Losses that are obtained when calculating an
installation with the CFD method will get losses
values nearly 17% lower than if the calculation is
done by the theoretical methods.
40. Simulation Results for Gradual
Contraction
Model parameter Value
Upstream length (m) 15
Downstream length (m) 15
Cross section area(m2); upstream,
contraction and downstream
1.00, 0.25,0.25
Mean uniform inlet velocity (m/s) 3
Reynolds number 1.82 x 105
Grid size (cells, faces, nodes) 30400, 97380, 36905
Model Parameters of Gradual Contraction Configurations
44. Simulation Results for a Mine
Regulator
Model parameter Value
Upstream length (m) 15
Downstream length (m) 15
Airway Width, Height
Regulator width, Height and
Length (m)
0.6,0.2
0.15,0.12, and 0.02
Mean uniform inlet velocity (m/s) 3
Reynolds number 0.5 x 105
Grid size (cells, faces, nodes) 28806, 96113, 39130
Model Parameters of Mine Regulator
46. Simulation Results for Shaft
Bottom
Boundary Conditions
Exhausting Configuration:
Forcing Configuration:
Geometry:
Shaft Diameter: 6m
Plat Dimensions:
Hydraulic Diameter: 3.4m
Airway Relative Roughness (e/D):
Other Parameters:
Viscosity Model:
Wall Function :
Fluid:
Density:
Viscosity:
Re for the airflow in shaft:
Airway Entry Velocity: 4.6m/s
Shaft Outlet Pressure: -800Pa
Airway Inlet Operating Pressure: 1 atm
Shaft Entry Velocity :1.5m/s
Airway Outlet Operating Pressure: 1 atm
Shaft Length: 600m
Shaft Bottom Length: 0xD,1xD,2xD
3m x 4m (height x width), 350m(length)
0.003,0.023,0.053
K-Epsilon Model
Standard Wall Function
Air
1.2 kg/m3
1.85 x 10-5 Pa.s
5.4 x 105
Input parameters of CFD Model of the Shaft
47.
48.
49. Results and Comparison
From results in the previous section, we can observe
that there is difference between Pressure and Shock
losses in Various Mine Configurations observed by
calculations from software packages Fluent and the
published literature.
The values obtained by calculating pressure losses in a
tunnel using CFD study had seen an error of 17% than
the pressure losses obtained from classical formula.
Moreover, the flow properties of fluid in a mine can be
predicted using CFD.
50. The shock losses at shaft bottoms did match with the
earlier experimented values but some sort of
discrepancy was observed in Forcing shaft bottom. This
discrepancy could have been because of choosing K-
Epsilon model or may be due to wrong meshing of the
model.
For two-way junctions, the literature underestimates the
shock loss coefficient substantially for both the branches
by 50% or more. In case of two-way splits, the literature
underestimates the shock loss coefficient for the straight
branch by 20% or more.
51. Configuration Shock Loss Factor value from
CFD simulation
Shock Loss Factor values for
similar configurations from
published literature
(McElroy,1935)
Rounded bend 0.18 0.13
Gradual contraction 0.14 0.15
Gradual expansion 0.42 0.56
Regulator 80.45 90.22
Table Comparison of Shock Loss Coefficients
52. Conclusion
From the results , it can be seen that there is good
agreement between CFD-generated shock loss
coefficients values and the published values of similar
configurations in published literatures, except in case of
splits/junction and forcing shaft bottom. The reasons for
disagreement in these cases may be as follows: The k -
e turbulence model was not able to model the behavior
of airflow through abrupt contraction. Improper meshing
of the mine configuration.
3D simulation for such calculations, since 3D simulation
are more near to the reality
53. 3D simulation for such calculations, since 3D simulation
are more near to the reality .
Also, 3D simulation gives more clear view of swirl
movements, streamlines and turbulence in the fluid.
During the work we realized that Fluent is a better option
for heavy and precise simulations. Since, Fluent has
capability to model turbulence with verity of Kappa-
Epsilon models and also because Gambit is a very
handy tool to create even complicated geometries.
54. Future Scope Of Studies
No Classical formula consider the roughness of the pipe. This is
where the accuracy of coefficients obtained by classical formula
can be questioned. Though the loss due to friction between fluid
and junction inner surface is very less but these small values can
be very significant for precise calculations
There should be more 3D computational experiments done using
more advanced CFD software packages.
Since Fluent takes too much time with dynamic mesh, but this is
possible with higher versions of Fluent and other CFD packages.
The use of other complex turbulence method like RANS and LES
model can be used for Pressure and shock loss calculation.
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60. They also recommend the following procedure for
its use:1. Values of Le from Table need not be corrected for K or RH.
2. With a change in area (splitting not involved), shock loss is included
in the airway section following the change. This also applies to a
bend in conjunction with an area change. Separate values are
provided for shock losses at entrance and discharge.
3. At splits and junctions in airways, only the portion of the total flow
involved in a change of direction or area is used. Values from Table
assume an even division of flow and allow for bend and area
change. Include the loss at a split or junction in the pressure drop
for the particular branch.
4. Judgment must be exercised in making proper allowance for
unusual sources of shock loss such as obstructions. Values from
Table are sufficiently accurate for all routine work. For more precise
calculations, such as would be required for research, the following
formulas should be used (McElroy, 1935):
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BACK UP SLIDES
65. Roadway Roughness Shock Loss Factor Mean Shock Loss Factor
Shaft Bottom Length
e/D f k (kg/m3) 2xD 1xD 0xD
0.003 0.004 0.0024 7.78 8.01 7.05 7.61
0.023 0.013 0.0078 8.21 8.40 8.96 8.49
0.053 0.018 0.0111 8.38 8.55 9.38 8.77
Mean Shock Loss Factor 8.12 8.32 8.46 8.30
By using Moody’s Diagram we can convert relative roughness to f ( chezy darcy coefficient) or k (atkinson’s friction factor)
Roadway Roughness Shock Loss Factor Mean Shock Loss Factor
Shaft Bottom Length
e/D f k (kg/m3) 2xD 1xD 0xD
0.003 0.004 0.0024 3.30 3.40 3.03 3.25
0.023 0.013 0.0078 4.17 4.17 3.23 3.86
0.053 0.018 0.0111 4.45 4.20 3.24 3.96
Mean Shock Loss Factor 3.97 3.92 3.17 3.69
By using Moody’s Diagram we can convert relative roughness to f ( chezy darcy coefficient) or k (atkinson’s friction factor)
CFD Simulated Shock loss factors for exhausting shaft bottom junction
CFD Simulated Shock loss factors for forcing shaft bottom junction