Simulation Of Desulfation Process in a Fixed-bed Reactor Utilizing CFD Technique

SO2 Emissions from different industrial activities such as, production of electricity in power plants, the metallurgical and cement productions, to name a few, are undesired due to this chemical’s harmful effects. Many processes to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions have been developed. Amongst these processes, direct dry sorbent injection is a relatively simple and low-cost process. In the current study, a CFD investigation of the Direct Sulfation Process is presented. This model accounted for this process to take place in a fixed bed reactor. Effects of important operating conditions including the temperature, concentration and pressure were studied in this work. It was shown that these parameters significantly affected the process. Ultimately, obtained theoretical results were shown to be comparable with experimental data available in the literature. This research provided a complementary theoretical method to the existing experimental technique the former of which might be used for any process optimizations.