Thomas Tourneur PhD student Ir. at UCL in 2014 Contact
Main project: Vortex Chamber Spray Dryer Funding: Private and Dutch government Supervisor(s): Juray De Wilde
High-G operations in vortex chamber allow to intensify transfer of mass, heat and momentum. This technology can be applied for treating particles (solid powder or liquid droplets in a precursor state) with, preferably, a rotating fluidized bed in various industrial fields like coating, granulation or spray drying. In the presented work, a first pilot unit is designed with the objective to create a multi-zone environment with axial separation in order to fed air into the reactor at different temperatures to improve the process of drying. Numerical simulations are run simultaneously to validate the model used and once accepted to predict new design effect without going through the experimental study. Different designs for the vortex chamber are tested to study their effect on the vortex flow pattern.
IMMC main research direction(s): Chemical engineering
Keywords: process intensification spray drying
Research group(s): IMAP Collaborations: FrieslandCampina, Unilever
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Journal Articles
1. Jamil Ur Rahman, Umair; Krzysztof Pozarlik, Artur; Tourneur, Thomas; de Broqueville, Axel; De Wilde, Juray; Brem, Gerrit. Numerical Study toward Optimization of Spray Drying in a Novel Radial Multizone Dryer. In: Energies, Vol. 14, no.5, p. 1233 (2021). doi:10.3390/en14051233. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/243699
Patents
1. De Broqueville, Axel; De Wilde, Juray; Tourneur, Thomas. Device for treating particles in a rotating fluidized bed. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/207531 http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/207531
Conference Papers
1. Minette, Florent; Tourneur, Thomas; De Wilde, Juray. Structured reactors for steam methane reforming. 2016 xxx. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/241954
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