The mechanism of vibration energy transfer in a vibrating fluidized bed (VFB) is reported in this paper. A series of sensors was employed to simultaneously detect pressure wave propagation signals at different positions at various heights in the fluidized bed. The mechanism of vibration energy transfer in an VFB is found by wave propagation. The pressure wave was produced from a vibrating base ...

drying properties of high moisture potato slices with initial moisture content of about 4.06 (db) under thin layer fixed, semi fluidized and fluidized bed conditions were studied. drying air temperatures of 40, 50, 60 and 70°c were applied in experiments using a laboratory fluidized bed convective dryer. in order to predict the drying behavior of potato slices, seven thin layer drying models we...

The design of furnaces and boilers for solid fuels is supported increasingly by powerful softwares and ever faster computers. A round-robin over the most important CFD (computational fluid mechanics) models and softwares currently available shows, however, that numerical procedures for particle/turbulence interactions are not (yet) very advanced. Particle/fluid interphase slip is considered, bu...