In winemaking, clarification and stabilization are the processes by which insoluble matter suspended in the wine (called lees) is removed before bottling. The light lees represent 2-4% of the total wine volume. Under certain circumstances, resuspension of lees may occur. The resuspension of lees has been attributed to temperature variations between the wine stored in tanks and the environment of the cellar. From in situ, laboratory-scale studies involving laser tomography techniques, it was shown that low (positive or negative) thermal gradients between a wine tank containing light lees and its external environment induce mass transfer by natural convection. To extrapolate these findings to full-scale tanks, an Eulerian-Eulerian multiphase CFD model was applied to simulate the two-phase flow behavior as a function of temperature variations on a 24-h cycle. Numerical temperature and time-dependent flow patterns of both wine and lees confirm that low thermal gradients induce sufficient fluid energy to resuspend the lees, thus showing that the laboratory results can be extrapolated to full-scale tanks.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7404562PMC
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