Biological Sabatier reaction with CFD analysis

The biological Sabatier reaction is a suitable option for the future energy storage. In this research a computational fluid dynamics analysis is carried out to study the mixing inside the anaerobic digester, to evaluate the gas to liquid mass transfer and the efficiency of the reaction. A detailed modeling about the hydrodynamics and mixing is developed: the standard k-ϵ mixture turbulence model and the Eulerian-Eulerian approach are used to simulate the flow inside the anaerobic digestion. The system mixing uses external sludge re-circulating pumps. Results of simulations show that with higher liquid velocity there are higher mass to transfer from gas to liquid and turbulent dissipation rate. The future construction of the anaerobic digester will provide the obtained results.