Filtro por precipitación electrostática para la remoción de material particulado en el escape de motores diesel
Fecha
2020-10-22Registro en:
Cuéllar Hernández, O. A. & Rincón Rodríguez, A. F. (2020). Filtro por precipitación electrostática para la remoción de material particulado en el escape de motores Diesel [Tesis de Pregrado en Ingeniería Mecánica, Universidad Santo Tomás] Repositorio Institucional - Universidad Santo Tomás.
reponame:Repositorio Institucional Universidad Santo Tomás
instname:Universidad Santo Tomás
Autor
Cuéllar Hernández, Oscar Alberto
Rincón Rodríguez, Ayder Fabian
Institución
Resumen
Since the industrial revolution began, the world's population has experienced the effects of air pollution caused by fossil fuels. Year by year, the quality of the air we breathe have decreased due to the burning of fossil fuels that generate gases and particles that are harmful to health, mainly coming from Diesel automotive.
Car manufacturers have chosen to reduce the emission of gases that are harmful to health through the production of new, improved and more efficient engines. However, there are no technological advances that really deal with environmental problems. It is then that the research is oriented towards electrostatic precipitators (ESP), focused on reducing pollutants. Studies have successfully shown that ESPs reduce these pollutants on a large scale, which is why this project explore the validity of a filter for vehicles that work on diesel and its possible implementation.
The project seeks to simulate a precipitation filter considering the electrical component with which it is fed, and the behavior of the fluid within it, by using the MATLAB and ANSYS software. For this, a review of the operation of the ESP is carried out in order to establish a prototype of precipitator that is adaptable to cargo vehicles, taking into account the voltage requirement and the behavior of the gas flow through it, to present a proposal for a precipitator model that meets the appropriate flow conditions for the collection of the material, based on a collection percentage.
Throughout the project, simulations with different operating conditions are developed to verify the feasibility of implementing the filter with the selected dimensions, and it is verified that the proposed model can be implemented in the different atmospheric conditions that occur in Colombia. Finally, the conditions in which the precipitator operates are reviewed to establish which of these are optimal, that is, to provide the maximum possible efficiency.