Fluidized beds can be used to gasify biomass in the production of producer gas, a flammable gas that can replace natural gas in process heating. Modeling these reactors with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations is advantageous when performing parametric studies for design and scale-up. From a computational resource point of view, two-dimensional simulations are easier to perform than ...

Vibrated granular beds show various interesting phenomena such as convection, segregation, and so on. However, its fundamental physical properties (e.g., internal pressure structure) have not yet been understood well. Thus, in this study, the bottom wall pressure in a vertically vibrated granular column is experimentally measured and used to reveal the nature of granular fluidization. The scali...

The fluid dynamics in the furnaces of large-scale circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers are surprisingly little known contrast to many laboratory studies made on conditions related chemical reactors. Two areas surveyed present work: bottom and upper dilute zone a furnace. is considered bubbling, but general opinion that either it does not exist, or turbulent. flow furnace phase transport, jud...