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Bed Diameter Effect on the Hydrodynamics of Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds Via Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT) Technique
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
  • Abdelsalam Efhaima
  • Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

The hydrodynamics observed in large-scale gas-solid fluidized bed reactors are different from those observed in smaller scale beds. In this study, the effect of bed diameter on the hydrodynamics of gas-solid fluidized bed reactors has been investigated in two bubbling fluidized beds of 44 cm and 14 cm in diameter using an advanced non-invasive radioactive particle tracking (RPT) technique. Compressed air at room temperature was used as the gas phase, and the solid was glass beads with a particle size of 210 μm (Geldart-B) and density of 2.5 g · cm-3. Particle velocity field, Reynolds stresses, normal stresses, turbulent kinetic energy, and axial and radial eddy diffusivities were measured in two beds at gas velocities of 1.5 Umf, 2 Umf, and 3 Umf. Experimental results showed that the bed scales have a significant effect on some of these hydrodynamic parameters where the magnitude of solids velocity is much higher in the larger bed and the solids mixing and diffusion of particles are increased by increasing the column diameter.

Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Center for High Performance Computing Research
Keywords and Phrases
  • Chemical Reactors,
  • Compressed Air,
  • Diffusion in Liquids,
  • Fluid Catalytic Cracking,
  • Fluid Dynamics,
  • Fluidization,
  • Fluidized Bed Furnaces,
  • Gases,
  • Hydrodynamics,
  • Kinetic Energy,
  • Kinetics,
  • Particle Size,
  • Radioactive Tracers,
  • Radioactivity,
  • Reynolds Number,
  • Supersaturation,
  • Velocity,
  • Velocity Control,
  • Bubbling Fluidized Bed,
  • Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics,
  • Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed,
  • Hydrodynamic Parameters,
  • Particle Velocities,
  • Radioactive Particle Tracking,
  • Scale Effects,
  • Turbulent Kinetic Energy,
  • Fluidized Beds
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2017 Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
4-1-2017
Publication Date
01 Apr 2017
Disciplines
Citation Information
Abdelsalam Efhaima and Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan. "Bed Diameter Effect on the Hydrodynamics of Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds Via Radioactive Particle Tracking (RPT) Technique" Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol. 95 Iss. 4 (2017) p. 744 - 756 ISSN: 0008-4034; 1939-019X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/muthanna-al-dahhan/28/