Verification and Validation of Preliminarily Result Of CFD of Electrostatic Precipitator

The Electrostatic Precipitator’s (ESP’s) are widely used for controlling particulate emissions from boilers and industrial process sources. The Electrostatic precipitation consists of three fundamental steps: (1) particle charging, (2) particle collection, and (3) removal of the collected dust. Electrostatic Precipitator is the device used for controlling air pollution. Process gases contain suspended dust particles. These dust particles are collected on collecting electrodes. The effectiveness of Electrostatic Precipitators is affected by various fact like gas flow condition, electric field generation and geometric parameters. The industrial ESP are capable of handling large gas volumes with a wide range of inlet temperatures, pressures, dust volumes and gas conditions and exhibit complex interaction mechanism between electric field, fluid flow and particulate flows. Flow pattern of electrostatic precipitator and effect of different boundary conditions on flow pattern has been studied by using Ansys fluent. So that the flow distribution should be improved and it should meet ICAC (Institute of Clean Air Companies) guidelines. This paper presents the Ansys Fluent (CFD) concept for modeling and analysis of Electro static precipitator. Experimental testing is done for validation. The result of CFD concept and physical measurement are discussed.