ammonium perchlorate particles have been dried in a laboratory spouted bed dryer (screen-bottomed type) which is categorized as a fluidized bed dryer. the solid particles obtained in this process of drying were semi-porous and known as the group d of geldart classification. the variations of moisture content with resident time, the effects of bed height on the pressure drop, and the influence o...

Samples of active coke, fresh and spent after cleaning flue gases from communal waste incinerators, were investigated. The outer layers of both coke particles were separately removed by comminution in a spouted bed. The samples of both active cokes were analysed by means of densities, mercury porosimetry, and adsorption technique. Remaining cores were examined to determine the degree of consump...

The hydrodynamic behaviour of the spouted bed has been studied by considering the different system parameters (viz. static bed height, spout diameter, particle size, gas velocity and particle density). Experiments were carried out using a Perspex column of 4 inch diameter. Attempts have been taken to develop correlations for the bed expansion / fluctuation ratios by varying different system par...

Low-cost drying technologies suitable for rural farming areas are presented. Some of the important considerations with regard to their suitability include: 1. Low initial capital; 2. easy-to-operate with no complicated electronic/ mechanical protocol, and 3. effective in promoting better drying kinetics. The drying technologies that were selected include fluidized bed, spouted bed, infrared, so...

A 2D Euler-Euler multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model in conjunction with the kinetic theory of granular flow (KTGF) was applied to describe biomass pyrolysis a spouted bed reactor. The primary interest this work development CFD hydrodynamic reactor coupled for prediction product yields (gas, bio-oil, and char). is based on three parallel reactions formation products secondary re...