The sources of occurrence of various pollutants from chemical process industries and there harmful effects have been highlighted. Typical composition of wastewater from various sources presented. The methods of treatment of wastewater briefly discussed. Special attention has been paid to the biological treatment mentioning the drawbacks of the traditional methods. The relative advantages of var...

A pilot-scale fluidized bed reactor was built and used to study and gain a better understanding of the propylene polymerization process at conditions similar to those of industrial fluidized-bed reactors. Propylene polymerization reaction was carried out continuously in the reactor and dynamic temperatures, and propylene and hydrogen concentrations data were collected. Simulated dynamic profile...

Modeling and measurement of bubble size in a rotating fluidized bed (RFB) were conducted. The model for predicting the bubble growth in RFB has been proposed based on the following concepts: (i) local centrifugal acceleration and excess gas velocity are considered as the parameters in the radial direction, and (ii) bubble volume flow locally changes depending on the radial distance. Bubbling be...

T he concept of chromatography in Expanded Bed Adsorption (EBA) was first proposed in early 90s. The initial advantage of the idea was to be able to directly process particulate containing biological feedstocks for target products, while still maintaining sufficiently high separation efficiency that is usually enjoyed only by the traditional chromatography columns. EBA could potentially replace...

−− The results obtained in the analysis of the thermal behaviour of a forest biomass fluidized bed dryer with mechanical agitation, are reported. The study is carried out in a pilot size experimental equipment in batch operation. By means of Taguchi’s techniques the specific consumption of energy and the rates of evaporation of water and production of dry biomass are analyzed based on the contr...

Particles distributions along a conical fluidized bed were predicted by an alternative arrangement of the minimum fluidization velocity equation. The proposed approach introduces two new equations which present the particle diameter in the bed as function of: height in the bed (Z), angle of inclination of the fluidized bed wall (θ), input flow rate (Qo), and gas distributor diameter (Do, 2ro). ...

The application of an external magnetic field on a fluidized bed of ferromagnetic particles is well known in a conventional two-phase, gas–solid or liquid–solid fluidization. The external magnetic field significantly changes the fluidized bed fluid-dynamic behavior and if creatively used may enhance the bed performance. In this paper, a theoretical fluid-dynamic model describing behavior of a G...

the excellent performance of fluidized bed heat exchangers is due to the interaction between particles and heat transfer surface and to the mixing effects in the viscous sublayer. in this paper, the results of experimental investigations on heat transfer for a wide range of newtonian and non-newtonian (shear-thinning power law) fluids are presented. new design equations have been developed for ...

Metals like Fe, Ca, Mn present in sewage sludge ash have been deposited on high surface -alumina with high mechanical resistance used as bed materials during sewage sludge fluidized bed combustion to produce low-cost CLC oxygen carriers. The produced oxygen carriers have been characterized using ICP-MS, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and surface area (BET) analysis....

This paper describes an experimental study on the extent of capture efficiency in a fluidized bed system under controlled conditions. Using aerosols as tracer compound, the capture efficiency in a fluidized bed was quantitatively measured as a function of contact distance (time). The paper presents the experimental technique as well as the results relating the capture efficiency to the bed hydr...