is the Spalding mass transfer number.
If the droplet contains solids, the remaining parti-
cle will enter the heating process after all the evapo-
rable components evaporate. The temperature equa-
tion is as follows (Miura 1977):
𝑀
𝑐
𝑑𝑇
𝑑𝑡
=ℎ𝐴
𝑇
−𝑇
5
3 DISCUSSION ON SIMULATION
SCHEME OF DROPLET
EVAPORATION
The treatment scheme of wastewater droplet evapora-
tion simulation is related to the components of desul-
furization wastewater and the discrete phase model
provided by the numerical simulation platform.
3.1 Component Analysis of
Desulfurization Wastewater
Desulfurization wastewater is the most difficult ter-
minal wastewater in thermal power plant, in which
there are many kinds of pollutants such as suspended
solids, salt content, heavy metal, fluoride and so on.
Measurement results showed that desulfurization
wastewater after pretreatment still contains Cl
-
, SO
4
2-
,
Na
+
, K
+
, Mg
2+
, Ca
2+
and suspended solids. Therefore,
desulfurization wastewater is generally considered to
consist of pure water, soluble salts and suspended sol-
ids (Liang, 2019). Because the crystallization of salts
and existence of suspended solids would affect the
droplet evaporation characteristics, the simulation
scheme of wastewater droplet considering the exist-
ence of these substances is a more reasonable scheme.
3.2 Discussions on Discrete Phase
Model of FLUENT Simulation
Platform
FLUENT platform could simulate many physical
phenomena such as flow, heat transfer, mass transfer,
combustion, radiation and so on. The platform pro-
vides several particle models for discrete phase simu-
lation. Both droplet model and multicomponent
model are suitable for simulating droplet evaporation.
Droplet model is mainly used to simulate the evapo-
ration of homogeneous droplets which the physical
parameters doesn’t change during the simulation.
Therefore, droplet model can’t simulate the crystalli-
zation of soluble salts and the presence of suspen-
sions. The multicomponent model can define several
components of the droplet, and can define the physi-
cal properties and evaporation of each component
separately. With the evaporation or crystallization of
the droplet components, the composition and physical
properties of the droplet change during the simula-
tion. Therefore, the multicomponent model could
simulate the mixture with salt crystallization and sus-
pension, and realize different simulation schemes of
wastewater droplets by defining the composition and
content.
3.3 Discussion on Droplet Evaporation
Scheme of Desulfurization
Wastewater
Based on the above analysis, combining with the
DPM model provided by FLUENT simulation plat-
form, considering the actual composition of desulfu-
rization wastewater and the treatment scheme of
desulfurization wastewater droplets in previous liter-
atures, the following five schemes which may simu-
late the evaporation of wastewater droplets are deter-
mined:
(1) Scheme 1: Disregard soluble salts and sus-
pended solids, treat wastewater as pure water, select
droplet model.
(2) Scheme 2: Disregard suspended solids, treat
wastewater as a mixture of pure water and soluble
salt, select droplet model.
(3) Scheme 3: Treat wastewater as a mixture of
pure water, soluble salt and suspended solids, select
droplet model.
(4) Scheme 4: Disregard suspended solids, treat
wastewater as a mixture of pure water and soluble
salt, select multicomponent model, define the physi-
cal properties and proportion of pure water and solu-
ble salt respectively.
(5) Scheme 5: Treat wastewater as a mixture of
pure water, soluble salt and suspended solids, select
multicomponent model, define the physical proper-
ties and proportion of pure water, soluble salt and sus-
pension respectively.