conveying velocity, pipe wear, and particle degradation. An experimental study has Yuji Tomita addressed the characteristics of swirling flow pneumatic conveying (SFPC) for the Professor, total pressure drop, solid flow patterns, power consumption, and additional pressure Department of Mechanical Engineering, drop. Polystyrene, polyethylene, and polyvinyl particles with mean diameters of 1.7, K...

A non-intrusive method to measure the particle velocities in dilute-phase pneumatic conveying is described. The method is based on correlating signals, which are measured in two flow cross-sections. The cross-correlation function generated provides information about the time it takes for a particle to travel between the measurement planes. Knowing the inter-plane distance and the time delay, th...

A numerical prediction for axial and swirling gas-solid flows in a vertical pipe was carried out with an Eulerian approach for the gas and a stochastic Lagrangian approach for particles, where particle-particle and particle-wall collisions were taken into consideration. The kε turbulence model was used to characterize the time and length scales of the gas-phase turbulence. Models predicting the...