NUMERICAL-SIMULATION OF OZONE AXIAL AND RADIAL-DISTRIBUTION IN A CYLINDRICAL OXYGEN-FED OZONIZER

A numerical simulation including kinetics, transport phenomena and temperature gradient is presented to describe axial and radial distribution of ozone in an oxygen-fed ozonizer with cylindrical symmetry. The interdependence of three types of modelling (kinetics, hydrodynamics and electronic injection due to electrical corona discharge) is emphasized and comparisons are made with previous simpler models. The simulation is performed in the case of an industrial cylinder-to-cylinder device for which the temperature gradient is negligible, and in the case of a laboratory wire-to-cylinder ozonizer where an important radial temperature gradient is experimentally observed. Two values of pressure are considered: 760 Torr, where chemical kinetics dominates over diffusion effects, and 10 Torr where diffusion is dominant.