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Efficiency of a photoreactor depends on the irradiation dose. Fluid residence time distribution (RTD) reflects hydrodynamic behavior of the flow. A computational model was built on a base and fitting a previous radiotracer experiment. Results of three simulations for three different configurations and height flow rate are presented and discussed below. This paper shows usefulness of CFD modeling as an imaging tool, which can be used to retrieve detailed, local information about the flow.
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The authors acknowledge the support of originators [1] for providing experimental data needed to lead simulations made for this research. This research was supported in part by PL-Grid Infrastructure. M.P. acknowledges his benefit from Ph.D. scholarships founded by Marian Smoluchowski Cracow Scientific Consortium—KNOW.
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Poliński, M., Stęgowski, Z. (2017). Influence of Inlet Positions on the Flow Behavior Inside a Photoreactor. In: Kulczycki, P., Kóczy, L., Mesiar, R., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Information Technology and Computational Physics. CITCEP 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44260-0_13
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