为进一步研究污泥薄层在过热蒸汽干燥中湿分扩散机理与有效扩散系数,根据干燥法测定有效扩散系数计算时往往忽略物料湿含量变化对有效扩散系影响,该文采用傅里叶数法和优化法分别计算2、4、6和10 mm厚度污泥薄层,在120-280℃过热蒸汽温度下的有效扩散系数,分析有效扩散系数与过热蒸汽温度、薄层厚度之间的关系。计算分析结果表明:采用傅里叶数法和优化法得出的有效扩散系数数值基本一致,能更为精确反应污泥薄层过热蒸汽干燥有效扩散系数值及变化特性;傅里叶数法和优化法算得4 mm厚度污泥在120-280℃过热蒸汽干燥有效扩散系数分别为2.52×10^-10-2.93×10^-9 m^2/s与2.75×10^-10-3.32×10^-9 m^2/s;2、4、6和10 mm厚度污泥在160℃过热蒸汽干燥时2种方法计算的有效扩散系数分别为3.84×10^-10-2.28×10^-9 m^2/s与4.40×10^-10-2.72×10^-9 m^2/s;有效扩散系数随着过热蒸汽温度、薄层厚度增大而逐渐增大,并成线性关系。通过多元线性回归得到2种方法计算的有效扩散系数与干燥温度、薄层厚度简化的表达式,决定系数分别为0.9982、0.9956。计算结果可为污泥薄层过热蒸汽干燥湿分扩散过程与有效扩散系数的变化分析提供参考。
The production of sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants has been continuously increasing in China. One way to manage sewage sludge is drying, which yields a solid with low humidity. This solid can be easily stored, recycled and transported to other facilities. The drying of sewage sludge has been proved to considerably reduce solid volumes. Using superheated steam in the drying process can lead to substantial energy, if the vapour evaporating from the materials is used elsewhere in overall process. Therefore, superheated steam drying is an attractive drying process for industrial use especially if the cost energy for the drying is a major part of the cost of manufacture such as sewage sludge drying process. In order to further study the moisture diffusion mechanism and effective diffusivity of thin layer of sludge in superheated steam drying, this paper ignoring the influence of sample's moisture content change on effective diffusivity when determining the effective diffusivity through drying method, and adopts Fourier number method and optimization method respectively to calculate the effective diffusivity of sludge thin layers with the thickness of 2, 4, 6 and 10 mm at superheated steam temperature from 120℃ to 280℃, respectively. Relations of the effective diffusivity with superheated steam temperature and the thickness of thin layer were analyzed. The results showed that the effective diffusivity values derived from Fourier number method and optimization method were basically identical, and the effective diffusivity values and change characteristics of thin layer sludge in superheated steam drying were more accurately reflected based on these two methods. Calculation results derived from the Fourier number method and optimization method showed that the effective diffusivity of sludge with the thickness at 4 mm were 2.52×10^-10-2.93×10^-9 m^2/s and 2.75×10^-10-3.32×10^-9 m^2/s respectively at the temperature 120-280℃,and the effective diffusivity of sludge with thicknesses of 2, 4, 6 and 8