Author : Maher Trigui, Karim Gabsi, Suzelle Barrington and Ahmed Noureddine Helal

In this study, chromatographic separation process of date sugars is modeled using a commercial computational fluids dynamics (CFD) code FLUENT 6.3.23 (Fluent Inc., USA). A three phases CFD model was developed using an Eulerian–Eulerian approach to calculate the date volume fraction transferred during time from sugar phase to resine phase. The separation process was studied as function of three sugar concentration (20, 35 and 50%), three date syrup flow rate (2,7 and 12ml/min) and three temperature(25, 47.5 and 70°C). The results revealed that the numerical data were in good agreement with the experimental data indicating the R² of 0.97.

Keywords: CFD model, Chromatographic process, date sugars.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.3 (June-2015)