Theoretical Prediction on Hydraulic Lift of a Coandă Effect-Based Mining Collector for Manganese Nodule
Open Access
- 30 August 2022
- Vol. 15 (17), 6345
- https://doi.org/10.3390/en15176345
Abstract
The undersea collecting vehicle is one of the three main parts in the deep-sea exploitation system. The Coandă effect-based collector picks up manganese nodules by providing an adverse pressure difference over the nodule, through the jet flowing around a curved wall. In order to overcome the drawbacks of repeated prototyping and experimenting in the traditional design procedure of the Coandă effect-based collector, the theoretical guide should be well placed to ensure correct design of the strongly related parameters of the collector. In this paper, a simplified model of curved wall jets was developed and the solution of approximate closed form was obtained to predict the lift force of the nodules. The variational tendencies of velocity, pressure and single-particle lift index perpendicular to the curved wall were investigated and the Coandă effects were found to be stronger with higher initial velocity, higher non-dimensional jet slot height and lower non-dimensional wall height. A CFD-DEM simulation of a number of particles was additionally performed to give more insight into the predictive accuracy of the simplified theory. Target lift force was found to be related to high efficiency in collection of particles, resulting in certain predictability of the theoretical model to the nodule lifting in a pre-prototype hydraulic device based on the Coandă effect.Funding Information
- National Nature Science Foundation of China (52071296)
- National key research and development program (2021YFC2800803, 2021YFC2801503)
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ20E060009, LQ22E060002)
- Science Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (19022101-Y)
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