Simulation Study on the Corrugated Plate Gas–Liquid Separator with the Assistance of the Drainage Hook

[Image: see text] Corrugated plate separators are widely used in the field of gas–liquid separation because of their excellent separation performance. The separation effect is very sensitive to the internal auxiliary structure of drainage hooks, so it is extremely important to study the action principle of drainage hooks to optimize the performance of corrugated plate separators. In this paper, Fluent is used as the solver and the realizable k–ε model is used to compare the separation performance of unhooked, single-hooked, and double-hooked corrugated plates. The results show that the separation efficiency of wave plates with hooks can reach 100%, the separation efficiency of wave plates without hooks is about 90%, and the superiority of the separation efficiency of single-hook and double-hook wave plates is related to the droplet partition diameter, which is positively correlated with Re. The pressure drop and separation efficiency increase with the increase of plate hook spacing, and the pressure drop and separation efficiency of single-hook and double-hook corrugated plates have different performance advantage zones influenced by Re and K(a). When the Re is 9.64 × 10(3) and K(a) is 0.294, the separation effect of corrugated plates with the single hook and double hook is the same. Through the analysis of the gas-phase flow field and droplet motion trajectory, it is found that the drainage hook enhances the separation effect of the corrugated plate separator by increasing the local gas velocity and forming a vortex inside the drainage hook.