Authors: K Krishnapisharody G A Irons
Publish Date: 2013/09/24
Volume: 44, Issue: 6, Pages: 1486-1498
Abstract
The modeling of gas–liquid plumes in steelmaking ladles has been the subject of many investigations In most studies the “modified” Froude number based on the momentum of the injected gas has been employed to characterize twophase plumes This approach has several shortcomings and is critically reviewed in the present work Based on an extensive review of previous work and theoretical considerations it is demonstrated that the injected momentum and consequently the modified Froude number has no significance to gas blowing operations in Ladle Metallurgy Instead an approach based on the “plume” Froude number derived from the buoyancy of the plume is shown to be more useful in modeling the plume as well as ladle hydrodynamics The dissipation behavior of the gas momentum in the vicinity of the injector is further clarified
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