ABSTRACT
Freeze dryer cooled by liquid nitrogen, used the cold source by liquid nitrogen,and
this is through the expansion of liquid nitrogen in heat exchangers to cooling the case,
to solve the slow cooling rate of the conventional compressor refrigeration
lyophilizer,and the problem that the limit temperature of cold trap is not low enough .
The cold trap is the important component of the freezedryer equipment,and the diffcult
of structure design in the freeze dryer. The capability of the cold-traps' transport is good
and bad, it is at a uniform temperature distribution inside the cold-trap,these directly
influence the collision probability that air collides with the shell of pipe of the
cold-trap,and the vapor condensation characteristic.
As the technology of the CFD software continuous development mature, it
becomes feasible in a analysis of fluid temperature and flow field distribution. In a
actual design process,because it is the lack of the analysis of the air-flow organization
inside the cold-trap, it may design the large structures,the expensive cost and the
unreasonable structure,these cause the irregular condensation and the decrease of the
vapor condensation. As a result, by using the Fluent software in this paper, it could be
analyze the fluid temperature and flow field distribution,to restructure the cold-trap
design and enhance the capacity of water-capture. the main work of thes paper can be
concluded as follows:
(1) The fluent simulation software was used to establish the mathematical model
for the cold trap and mesh.Through heat and fluid dynamics analysis,the model of cold
trap is to set the control equation,and to choose the computation module.
(2) Experiment have two kinds of lyophilizers with the liquid nitrogen, including
the direct and indirect cooling freeze dryer with liquid nitrogen, installing the
temperature pickup on the key parts of the pipe coil of the cold trap,
monitoring the coil
temperature in the test, to show the temperature distribution of the cold trap. The fluent
simulation software was used to simulate the temperature distribution of the cold trap of
two Freezedryers, and to compare with the experimental data from the test, in order to
let the result data of numerical simulation coincide with the result data of the
experimental test basically.
(3) From analyzing the temperature distribution of the cold trap,this paper is to find
the cause of the nonuniform temperature of the cold trap, and to modifying the structure
of the cold trap and add the guide plate,to enhance steam disturbance, the uniform frost