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Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors

Micro-chemical plants are chemical plants that use micrometrics structures by performing a numbering-up of microdevices. The flow distributor is responsible for the uniform distribution through these microdevices. Inadequate designs reduce the plant performance. Thus, 3D printing is a good alternati...

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Autores principales: Mendonça Lopes, Mariana Garcia, Santana, Harrson Silva, Andolphato, Vinícius Felix, Silva, João Lameu, Taranto, Osvaldir Pereira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31372444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.103799
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author Mendonça Lopes, Mariana Garcia
Santana, Harrson Silva
Andolphato, Vinícius Felix
Silva, João Lameu
Taranto, Osvaldir Pereira
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description Micro-chemical plants are chemical plants that use micrometrics structures by performing a numbering-up of microdevices. The flow distributor is responsible for the uniform distribution through these microdevices. Inadequate designs reduce the plant performance. Thus, 3D printing is a good alternative to allow fast and economic development for design tests. The present research applied 3D printing to manufacture flow distributors and evaluated the flow uniformity from experimental tests. This data article presents values of the non-uniformity flow coefficient (Ф) of three distinct distributors: the rectangular distributor (RD), the conical distributors with obstacle (CDO) and the conical distributor without obstacle (CD). The distributors were tested in water flow and at low flow rates, it was observed a flow maldistribution, related to the presence of air bubbles. For high flow rates the Ф reduced to values below 1%. The results presented here were used to validate the numerical simulations of flow distributors for numbering-up of biodiesel synthesis in micro and millidevices, “CFD analysis of flow distributor designs for numbering-up of biodiesel synthesis” [1].
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spelling pubmed-66606022019-08-01 Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors Mendonça Lopes, Mariana Garcia Santana, Harrson Silva Andolphato, Vinícius Felix Silva, João Lameu Taranto, Osvaldir Pereira Data Brief Engineering Micro-chemical plants are chemical plants that use micrometrics structures by performing a numbering-up of microdevices. The flow distributor is responsible for the uniform distribution through these microdevices. Inadequate designs reduce the plant performance. Thus, 3D printing is a good alternative to allow fast and economic development for design tests. The present research applied 3D printing to manufacture flow distributors and evaluated the flow uniformity from experimental tests. This data article presents values of the non-uniformity flow coefficient (Ф) of three distinct distributors: the rectangular distributor (RD), the conical distributors with obstacle (CDO) and the conical distributor without obstacle (CD). The distributors were tested in water flow and at low flow rates, it was observed a flow maldistribution, related to the presence of air bubbles. For high flow rates the Ф reduced to values below 1%. The results presented here were used to validate the numerical simulations of flow distributors for numbering-up of biodiesel synthesis in micro and millidevices, “CFD analysis of flow distributor designs for numbering-up of biodiesel synthesis” [1]. Elsevier 2019-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6660602/ /pubmed/31372444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.103799 Text en © 2019 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Mendonça Lopes, Mariana Garcia
Santana, Harrson Silva
Andolphato, Vinícius Felix
Silva, João Lameu
Taranto, Osvaldir Pereira
Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors
title Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors
title_full Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors
title_fullStr Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors
title_full_unstemmed Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors
title_short Flow uniformity data on 3D printed flow distributors
title_sort flow uniformity data on 3d printed flow distributors
topic Engineering
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31372444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.103799
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