Subventions et des contributions :

Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019).

SlurryFlo Valve Corp. is a 100% Canadian owned company working in the field of engineering andx000D
manufacturing across Canada. SlurryFlo Valve Corp. designs custom-engineered control valves for variousx000D
flow conditions applied to a variety of industrial applications in the mineral processing, gas and petroleum, andx000D
power generation sectors and many other fields. With increasing demand for new, more effective valves, thex000D
company engineering group has observed a need to perform more advanced computational research on severalx000D
critical flow modeling scenarios involving large-scale control valves. One of the critical issues in designingx000D
new large-scale valves (>30 inches) is an increase in the turbulence intensity of the flow passing through thex000D
valve and the occurrence of phase separation or segregation due to downstream recirculation zones past thex000D
valve. As a result, the turbulence and phase segregation significantly influence the so-called valve flowx000D
coefficient, which plays the governing role in valve design and in the selection of materials used in valvex000D
production. In this view, an accurate prediction of the valve flow coefficient taking into account the impact ofx000D
turbulence is necessary for an optimal design of large scale valves. Calculations of this kind will help thex000D
company to make valves more reliable and more effective in terms of operation and production. In this workx000D
the flow coefficient of valves will be calculated directly using three-dimensional computational fluid dynamicx000D
models (3D CFD) under different flow conditions.x000D
The innovative nature of this work lies in an adoptation of 3D CFD-based models (including a set ofx000D
submodels and numerical schemes) available in the commercial solver ANSYS-Fluent to predict the flowx000D
coefficient of valves for single-phase and multiphase turbulent flows through valves of different sizes. Thex000D
expected outcome from modeling single-phase and multi-phase flows through a valve will contributex000D
significantly to enhancing the reliability and efficiency of engineered valves in a variety of industrialx000D
applications in mineral processing, gas and petroleum and many other fields across Canada.