CFD and physical models of PM separation for urban drainage hydrodynamic unit operations

Water Research
Hua Liu, John J Sansalone

Abstract

A hydrodynamic separator (HS) is a common pre-treatment unit operation (UO) for separating coarser particulate matter (PM). While HS designs have disparate internal geometries, surface areas, and volumes; for a given PM granulometry this study hypothesizes there are limits to PM separation. In this study, a large group of full-scale HS units were tested with physical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to evaluate HS functionality based on surface overflow rate (SOR), HS geometrics (diameter, height, baffling), PM granulometry, particle size distribution (PSD), turnover volume, hydraulic capacity, and short-circuiting. Models were loaded with a hetero-disperse PSD, a common testing metric. PM separation results show that PSD variability greater than ±2% from this metric are different (α = 0.05). Comparing PM separation using the PSD metric across the SOR range: (1) all HS results were below the ideal SOR model, (2) above Hazen's tanks-in-series model with N = 1, (3) above plain tank designs, and (4) declined logarithmically in a ±10% range. Integrated across a triangular loadgraph, the SOR model significantly over-estimated PM separation for all HS units. The SOR model deviated from the validated CFD model, as PSD loa...Continue Reading

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