Several industrial applications use packed-bed reactors for heterogeneous processes with intermittent presence of interstitial liquid. One such example is steam-regenerated adsorption systems. Here, we computationally generate two randomly packed beds the same voidage – one spheres and cylinders to study role particle shape in a process. We analyze geometrical characteristics determine flow, tr...

One of the important characteristics in predicting the flow of two phases (gas and liquid) in the industrial equipment is the gas percentage in the liquid, which is called voidage. This characteristic can be measured by different methods; the optical method is one of them. In the present work, a He-Ne laser light is employed to measure the voidage. The measurement depends on the principle of la...

Micro-fluidized bed (MFB) can be used as a fast screening tool for preliminary testing of engineering designs, but the applications MFB bioprocessing research such microorganism cultivation is still deficient. This paper reports unique fluidization performance fungal pellets in 3D-printed micro-fluidized bed, thus giving insights to hydrodynamic study and broadening potential bioproduction fiel...

Circulating Fluidised Beds (CFBs) are widely applied in the process industry, for mostly gas-solid and gas-catalytic reactions. The riser is the key component of the CFB being the process reactor. The important design parameters are the operating gas velocity (U) and the solids concentration flux (G). The CFB operation starts at moderate to high superficial gas velocities. Its voidage exceeds ~...

Cryogel beads, fabricated by the microchannel liquid-flow focusing and cryo-polymerization method, have micron-scale supermacropores allowing the passage of crude feedstocks, and could be of interest as chromatographic adsorbents in bioseparation applications. In this work, we provide a rapid freezing and continuous formation method for cryogel beads by cryo-polymerization using dry ice particl...

T he dynamics of the bottom zone of a narrow fluidized bed, from bubbling to turbulent regimes, was studied in a cold model of 0.1 m i.d. and 1.3 m high. Tested distributor types were perforated perspex plates, with six different perforation grids, metallic mesh and porous ceramic, with pressures drops ranging from 0.05 to 350 kPa, corresponding to superficial air velocities from 0.1 to 2.3 m s...

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 ...

CFD-DEM (Computational Fluid Dynamics – Discrete Element Modelling) is a twophase flow numerical modelling technique, where the Eulerian method is used for the fluid and the Lagrangian method for the particles. The two phases are coupled by a fluid-particle interaction force (i.e. drag force) which is computed using a correlation. In a two-phase flow, one critical parameter is the voidage (or v...

This study aimed to determine the effect of rice husk fluidization and variation in equivalence ratio bubbling fluidized bed gasifiers without sand materials. It also improve quality by reducing diameter husks. Therefore, bulk density increases, whereas voidage decreases, both which are main parameters for improving solid particles. Experiments were carried out at a velocity 0.82 m/s, varying e...