Temperature Distribution in Fluidized Beds of Porous Particles with Liquid Injection

Intensification of mass transfer in liquid fluidized beds with inert particles

The influence of inert particles on liquid/solid mass transfer is studied in fluidized beds by using a binary-mixture of solids of differing size and density. The addition of inert particles of higher density and smaller diameter, e.g. glass beads, exerts remarkable effects on mass transfer coefficients in comparison to that of mono-component active particles at the same liquid velocity. The ex...

A Numerical Study on Agglomeration in High Temperature Fluidized beds

Soft-sphere discrete element method (DEM) and Navier-Stokes equations were coupled with equations of energy for gas and solids to investigate the process of agglomeration in fluidized bed of polyethylene particles at high temperature. The Newton’s second law of motion was adapted for translational and rotational motion of particles and agglomerates. The cohesive force for polyethylene particles...

Wave Propagation and Granular Temperature in Fluidized Beds of Nano and FCC Particles

Dynamical simulation of fluidized beds: Hydrodynamically interacting granular particles.

A numerical simulation of a gas-fluidized bed is performed without introduction of any empirical parameters. Realistic bubbles and slugs are observed in our simulation. It is found that the convective motion of particles is important for the bubbling phase and there is no convection in the slugging phase. From the simulation results, non-Gaussian distributions are found in the particle velociti...

Pressure Drop in Liquid-Solid Circulating Fluidized Beds

An experiment was conducted to obtain data of pressure drop in riser tubes of liquid-solid circulating fluidized beds. In the experiment, 2 kinds of riser tube having a diameter of 24mm and 36mm were used. Tested particles were of glass and ceramics, and their diameter range was from 2.10 to 4.95mm. Water at ambient conditions was used as the fluidizing fluid. Pressure drop in riser tubes was m...