Numerical approach to minimize mercury contamination by geometric and parametric optimization.

ABSTRACT: Due to high vapour pressure at ambient conditions, exposed mercury contributes significant vapour concentration in working atmosphere. Ventilation is a conventional, cheap and very effective method to bring down the concentration of hazardous materials like mercury vapour below permissible limit. In this work a numerical model was developed to obtain intuitive understandings of the spatial distribution of mercury vapors from an exposed surface. The model was validated with experimental data generated using a precinct ventilation system with 8.14% absolute average error. a Validated model was used to study the effect of air flow rate (100-1200 LPM) and impact of architectural design of the containment for fixed exposed mercury surfaceon the final (diluted) mercury concentration. Comparative

SUBMITTER: Shukla P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7718470 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature