{"id":407240,"date":"2025-01-27T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/uv-c-disinfection-of-water-speosfluent-integration\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:32:17","slug":"uv-c-disinfection-of-water-speosfluent-integration","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/uv-c-disinfection-of-water-speosfluent-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"UV-C disinfection of water (Speos\/Fluent integration)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)” data-darkreader-inline-border-top=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-right=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-left=”” data-darkreader-inline-color=”” data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=””><span style=”font-family: Helvetica;” data-ogsc=”” data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Hi all,<\/span><\/div><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)” data-darkreader-inline-border-top=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-right=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-left=”” data-darkreader-inline-color=”” data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=””> <\/div><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)” data-darkreader-inline-border-top=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-right=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-left=”” data-darkreader-inline-color=”” data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=””><span style=”font-family: Helvetica;” data-ogsc=”” data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>For the past number of months I have been working on simulating UV LEDs in Ansys Fluent to determine disinfection rate in a UV LED flow-through reactor. This reactor is used to disinfect drinking water or waste water.<br><br><\/span><\/div><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)” data-darkreader-inline-border-top=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-right=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-left=”” data-darkreader-inline-color=”” data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=””><span style=”font-family: Helvetica;” data-ogsc=””>Prior to setting up a full simulation of that reactor, I would like to set up a model for a bench scale version of the reactor (see attached) where a sample is in a petri dish and being constantly stirred. I have data for how well this bench-scale unit works and I would like to simulate it to confirm disinfection rates prior to building a larger model.<\/span><\/div><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)” data-darkreader-inline-border-top=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-right=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom=”” data-darkreader-inline-border-left=”” data-darkreader-inline-color=”” data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=””><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)”><span style=”font-family: Helvetica;” data-ogsc=””> <\/span><\/div><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;”><span style=”font-family: Helvetica;”><span style=”color: #000000;” data-ogsc=”” data-ogac=”#000000″>I’ve managed to create simulations in Fluent and Speos but I’m unable to get the disinfection data to connect. I’ve found and Ansys Healthcare webinar on “UV Fluid Disinfection”<\/a> presented by Tomasz Stelmach that walks through the process using Speos 2021 R1 with the Optics Multiphysics tool but I haven’t been able to find such a tool, nor have I found a way to generate an interpolation file. I’ve also read and walked through the article on Ansys Optics titled “UV-C surface disinfection of a medial mask”<\/a>, which is what brings me to this post: I<span style=”border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;” data-ogsc=””>’<\/span>m looking for assistance in setting up a simulation in Speos and exporting the disinfection data to Fluent to determine the disinfection rate in a moving volume of water.<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)”><span style=”font-family: Helvetica;” data-ogsc=””> <\/span><\/div><div class=”x_x_elementToProof” style=”border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; font-family: ‘Segoe UI’, ‘Segoe UI Web (West European)’, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, ‘Helvetica Neue’, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; text-align: left;” data-ogsc=”rgb(0, 0, 0)”><span style=”font-family: Helvetica;” data-ogsc=””>I hope I’ve provided enough detail. Any help is greatly appreciated.<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-407240","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-fluent","topic-tag-speos","topic-tag-uv-lamp","topic-tag-UVRadiation-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27816"],"_bbp_topic_id":["407240"],"_bbp_subscription":["338633","199"],"_bbp_author_ip":["134.190.221.72"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["407424"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["407424"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-01-28 16:08:17"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["338633","199"],"_btv_view_count":["280"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"aaron-ryandal-ca"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/407240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/407240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}