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DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS TOOL
Mr. Abhijeet Rane,
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Gajendra V. Patil,

Gajanan Thokal,

Vinayak Khatwate

(Mechanical Engineering, Pillais institute of Information and Technology, Mumbai University, New Panvel, India) 2, 3, 4 (Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Pillais institute of Information and Technology, Mumbai University, New Panvel, India)

ABSTRACT An electrostatic precipitator is designed to trap and remove dust particles from the exhaust gas. The computer aided design and finite element analysis of electrostatic precipitator cone structure has been carried out. For static structure analysis two models (Model A and Model B) is being considered having horizontal and vertical stiffener arrangement. As per ISO (IS 808: 1989, Edition 4.1) standard for stiffeners, the various sizes of stiffeners are analyzed for electrostatic precipitator cone structure. The deformation of Model A cone structure and Model B cone structure is analyzed with various stiffener arrangements with allowable deformation 39mm. From analysis it is observed that deformation goes on decrease as weight of electrostatic precipitator cone structure increase. Also it is interestingly noted that maximum deflection region in each case of model is at centre of face having maximum surface area. Keywords: Electrostatic Precipitator, Finite Element Analysis, Stiffener, Cone Structure. 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Electrostatic precipitator An electrostatic precipitator is an emission-control unit which is designed to trap and remove dust particles from the exhaust gas stream from boiler. The cone structure is air tight conduit to transport air or flue gases under positive or negative pressure. In order to accommodate the expansion due to the temperature, expansions joints are introduced along the duct length. This creates independent pieces of ducts with own floating supports. Figure 2 illustrates the cone structure with expansion joints [1].
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Fig.2. Block diagram of electrostatic precipitator

Fig.3. Cone structure with expansion joints

The cone system is designed to resist the loads such as internal suction pressure, weight of the cone structure, thermal expansion. The internal pressure load consists of two components; operating pressure, which is the expected pressure continuously acting on the wall, and transient pressure, which is the very high pressure for relatively very short period of time during an abnormal event. The cone side panels are often joined longitudinally with angles or bent plates at the corner of the duct. Corner angles provide air tight seal in addition to strength and stiffness. The stiffener and the plate act as one composite section to jointly resist the loads. In order to be a complete composite section, the attachment between the stiffener and the plate must have adequate strength. The effect of stiffener location on the overall deformation and overall weight of the cone structure is analysed. The proposed results can be used to develop an improved design for electrostatic precipitator cone structure along with best suited stiffener arrangement. There is need to control the deformation of electrostatic precipitator cone structure within considerable limit i.e. maximum deformation should not exceed more than 39mm. So to make the cone stiffer various arrangements of stiffeners are analyzed. The structural failure of electrostatic precipitator cone which is suspended in a cantilever arrangement is analyzed using Finite Element Analysis tool (ANSYS 12.0) to analyze the deformation and to reduce the weight so as to make it economical. Comparative study of non-linear analysis [2] on cone structure of electrostatic precipitator with Model A and Model B which have horizontal and vertical stiffener arrangement respectively has been done. Various arrangements of stiffeners are analyzed so as to reduce the deformation and weight of structure. Maximum deformation should not exceed 39mm. Model B gives minimum deflection as compare to other models. 2. PROBLEM FORMULATION AND METHODOLOGY Finite element analysis software ANSYS 12.0 (Workbench) has been used for static structural analysis of electrostatic precipitator cone structure. In this investigation, the nonlinearity comes from the material properties and buckling behaviour of stiffened panels. 2.1. MODELING OF THE ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR CONE The three dimensional computer aided design model of electrostatic precipitator cone structure is created as Model A and Model B. Model A consists of cone structure with arrangement of stiffeners crossing the axis of cone (gas flow). Model B model having stiffeners are arranged in
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International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJMET), ISSN 0976 6340(Print), ISSN 0976 6359(Online) Volume 5, Issue 1, January (2014), IAEME the direction of gas flow. The channel section dimensions i.e. its web height and flange width gets varied as per ISO standards to reduce deformation of the electrostatic precipitator cone structure and make it safer. The different model of electrostatic cone structure with channel sizes 15075mm, 25080mm, 30090mm and 400100mm is developed in ANSYS12.0. Total height of cone is 13900mm and length is 4530mm respectively as shown in fig below.

Fig. 4. Two dimensional view of electrostatic precipitator cone

Fig.5. Model A: Horizontal Stiffener

Fig.6. ModelB: Vertical Stiffener

Applying Material Properties Material Youngs Modulus (E) Poissons Ratio () Density

: : : :

Structural Steel 200 e9 MPa 0.3 7850 kg/mm3

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Fig.7. Element Shell 181

2.2.1. AUTOMATIC METHOD Scoping method :Geometry selection Geometry : 77 Bodies Method : Quadrilateral dominant Element midside node : Use global setting Free face mesh Type : Quad/Tri 2.2.2. BODY SIZING Scoping method Geometry Suppressed Element size Behaviour : Geometry selection : 77 Bodies : No : 50mm : Soft

2.3. MODAL ANALYSIS Contact between two bodies of electrostatic precipitator cone structure is checked in modal analysis. Bigger side of inlet is fixed because bigger end is connected to main body and smaller end is connected to expansion joint to facilitate the expansion due to thermal loads. Maximum modes to find are kept as six so the analysis will take place in six steps. Total deformation has been checked to confirm the contact between two connecting bodies. Table 1 Modal analysis of electrostatic precipitator cone structure. Mode Frequency [Hz] 1 15.448 2 18.526 3 21.577 4 21.985 5 23.21 6 25.144
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International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology (IJMET), ISSN 0976 6340(Print), ISSN 0976 6359(Online) Volume 5, Issue 1, January (2014), IAEME 2.4. STATIC STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS Bigger end having six edges and twenty faces is considered as fixed support 1, fixed support2 is connected to main body. Smaller end is connected to expansion joint to facilitate the expansion due to thermal loads. All edges and faces at bigger end of cone structure which is connected to main body are fixed and pressure of 0.05 MPa is applied normal to each cone surface. The nonlinearity [3] comes from the material properties and buckling behaviour of stiffened panels, the nonlinear finite element method was done using ANSYS. 2.5. SOLUTION The static structural analysis of Model A and Model B having channel sizes used are 15075mm, 25080mm, 30090mm and 400100mm, analysed the results as follows: Total deformation of model A and model B electrostatic precipitator cone structure. Overall weight of electrostatic precipitator cone structure. 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION All edges and faces at bigger end of cone structure which is connected to main body are kept fixed and pressure of 0.05 MPa is applied on each cone surface, as bigger end is connected to main body and smaller end is connected to expansion joint to facilitate the expansion due to thermal loads. It is need to control the deformation of Electrostatic precipitator cone structure within considerable limit i.e. maximum deformation should not exceed than 39mm. The cone structure with different arrangements of stiffeners is analyzed.

Fig. 8.Deformation of model A with stiffener size 400100mm Table 2. Results with model A Deformation in mm 244.11 172.79 123.13 88.114

Stiffener size in mm 15075 25080 30090 400100

Weight in kg 36132 37132 38029 39360

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300 250

Deformation in mm

200 150 100 50 0 36132 37132 38029 39360

Weight in kg Fig.8. Graph of deformation vs weight for model B

Table 3. Results with model B Stiffener size 15075 25080 30090 400100 Deformation in mm 167.34 85.347 60.137 36.781 Weight in kg 36025 37159 37973 39277

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180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 36025 37159 37973 39277

Deformation in mm

Weight in kg Fig.9. Graph of deformation vs weight for model B

4. CONCLUSION Comparative study of nonlinear analysis has been done for two different arrangements of stiffeners (horizontal and vertical) on the cone structure of Electrostatic Precipitator. Deflections & weights for all two models are as listed in table. Table 4. Deflections & weights for model A and Model B Model with 400100 mm stiffener Model A Model B Maximum deformation in mm 88.114 36.781 Allowable Deformation in mm 39 39

Weight in kg

39277 39360

After observing above results some conclusions can be made that Model B having stiffener size 400x100mm and with vertical arrangement gives minimum deflection as compare to other models. So thinking toward safety perspective model B is safer as compare to models A whereas weight of model B is more as compare to model A. So model B will require more material and it will cause increase in cost. Also it is interestingly noted that maximum deflection region in each case of model is at centre of face having maximum surface area. The reason behind this is extended portion on this face which kept fixed as per boundary condition requirements and deflection distribution in all cases is nearly symmetric.

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