On the bed expansion in aggregative fluidization

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 822-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloslav Hartman ◽  
Václav Veselý ◽  
Karel Svoboda

Prediction of two hydrodynamic models and four entirely empirical correlations for the expansion of freely bubbling fluidized beds are compared with four sets of the experimental data. The results provide answers to some practical questions regarding the applicability of the recently proposed relationship for predicting the expansion in the fluidized beds with larger particles.

Author(s):  
D. A. Sullivan ◽  
P. A. Mas

The effect of inlet temperature, pressure, air flowrate and fuel-to-air ratio on NOx emissions from gas turbine combustors has received considerable attention in recent years. A number of semi-empirical and empirical correlations relating these variables to NOx emissions have appeared in the literature. They differ both in fundamental assumptions and in their predictions. In the present work, these simple NOx correlations are compared to each other and to experimental data. A review of existing experimental data shows that an adequate data base does not exist to evaluate properly the various NOx correlations. Recommendations are proposed to resolve this problem in the future.


Author(s):  
D. Paramonov ◽  
C. Adamsson

Each BWR fuel design requires a method to predict its dryout performance in order to be licensed. Presently, the assessment of dry-out risk is based on empirical correlations, which sometimes results in inaccurate or non-physical predictions in certain portions of operational space. This poses a number of limitations as plant operators seek to extract additional value from the fuel through more aggressive operation strategies. A new form of BWR dryout correlation is developed. Accuracy of predictions outside of experimental data range is increased by employing a non-linear correlation form and the transformation to axial power profile, which is based on physical considerations. Proper qualitative behavior is assured by the correlation form itself rather than values of regression coefficients.


Minerals ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Yakun Tian ◽  
Shulei Song ◽  
Xuan Xu ◽  
Xinyu Wei ◽  
Shanwen Yan ◽  
...  

The bed pressure drop, minimum fluidized gas velocity, bed density, and bed expansion rate are important parameters characterizing the fluidization characteristics of gas-solid fluidized beds. By analyzing these parameters, the advantages and disadvantages of the fluidization state can be known. In this study, experiments were conducted to study the fluidization characteristics of a gas-solid magnetically fluidized bed for microfine particles by changing the magnetic field strength, magnetic field addition sequence, and static bed height. The experimental results show that when the magnetic field strength increased from 0 KA/m to 5 KA/m, the minimum fluidized gas velocity of particles increased from 4.42 cm/s to 10.32 cm/s, while the bed pressure drop first increased and then decreased. When the magnetic field strength is less than 3.4 KA/m, the microfine particles in the bed are mainly acted on by the airflow; while when the magnetic field strength is greater than 3.4 KA/m, the microfine particles are mainly dominated by the magnetic field. The magnetic field addition sequence affects the fluidization quality of microfine particles. The fluidized bed with ‘adding magnetic field first’ shows a more stable fluidization state than ‘adding magnetic field later’. Increasing of the static bed height reduces the bed expansion rate. The bed expansion rate is up to 112.5% at a static bed height of h0 = 40 mm and H = 5 KA/m. This will broaden the range of density regulation of a single magnetic particle and lay the advantage of gas-solid magnetically fluidized bed for microfine particles in the field of separation of fine coal.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kal R. Sharma

Abstract Experimentally measured values for the minimum fluidization velocities and time averaged local surface heat transfer coefficients are provided for 16 different cases of fluidizing conditions for gas-solid dense fluidized beds. Semi-empirical Correlations for the minimum fluidization velocity and the heat transfer coefficient at minimum fluidization velocities are provided. The implications of the Peclet number dependence in terms of diffusion and convection is discussed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholamhossein Sodeifian ◽  
Seyed Ali Sajadian ◽  
Fariba Razmimanesh ◽  
Seyed Mojtaba Hazaveie

Abstract One of the main steps in choosing the drug nanoparticle production processes by supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) is determining the solubility of the solid solute. For this purpose, the solubility of Ketoconazole (KTZ) in the SC-CO2, binary system, as well as in the SC-CO2-menthol (cosolvent), ternary system, was measured at 308–338 K and 12–30 MPa using the static analysis method. The KTZ solubility in the SC-CO2 ranged between 1.70×10− 6 and 8.02×10− 4, while drug solubility in the SC-CO2 with cosolvent varied from 2.7×10− 5 to 1.96×10− 4. This difference indicated the significant effect of menthol cosolvent on KTZ solubility in the SC-CO2. Moreover, KTZ solubilities in the two systems were correlated by several empirical and semiempirical models. Among them, Sodeifian et al., Bian et al., MST, and Bartle et al. models can more accurately correlate experimental data for the binary system than other used models. Also, the Sodeifian and Sajadian model well fitted the solubility data of the ternary system with AARD,%= 6.45, Radj= 0.995.


Author(s):  
Katia Tannous ◽  
Joana Bratz Lourenço

The study of fluid dynamic and mixing characteristics of biomass particles in fluidized beds is fundamental for comprehension of thermal conversion processes. In this chapter a review of literature showed a large lacks of technical information about the quality of fluidization and representative models concerning binary mixtures (biomass and inert). A case study was presented involving Eucalyptus grandis wood and tucumã endocarp in order to obtain fluid dynamic parameters such as the characteristic fluidization, velocity and porosity, and the bed expansion. These parameters were more significant for mixtures with smaller diameter and mass fraction ratios, and sphericity ratio, due to the facility of beds to fluidize. A map was presented to identify the limits of effective mixtures considering four classes as a function of the complete fluidization Reynolds' and Archimedes' numbers. Empirical correlations have been proposed and showed a good agreement with the experimental work.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-370
Author(s):  
P. Tyagi ◽  
K. Kumar ◽  
M. Rani ◽  
N. Sabharwal

This paper reports the refractive indices ( ) of N,N-diethylethanamine + methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, propyl acetate, butyl acetate and pentyl acetate at 298.15 K and at different composition range. The various empirical correlations like Arago-Biot (AB), Gladstone-Dale (GD), Lorentz-Lorenz (L-L) Heller (H), Weiner (W), Newton (Nw) and Erying-John (E-J) were applied to experimental data for estimating theoretical value of refractive indices. For an equimolar mixture, the predicted deviation in refractive index values is consistent well with the experimental data. It has been found that the interactions between amine and different esters decrease when carbon chain length in ester increases. Also refractive indices are affected with change in temperature. To evaluate the standard deviation, RK polynomial equation was fitted to the measured refractive indices data.


Author(s):  
Bahareh Estejab ◽  
Francine Battaglia

In this study, seven drag models are examined to determine how they affect fluidization behavior of Geldart A particles of biomass and coal. Notwithstanding the notable number of numerical studies to find the best drag model for larger particles, there is a dearth of information related to drag models for finer Geldart A particles. Additionally, to our knowledge, these drag models have not been tested with a binary mixture of Geldart A particles. Computational fluid dynamics was used to model the gas and solid phases in an Eulerian-Eulerain approach to simulate the particle-particle interactions of coal-biomass mixtures and compare the predictions with experimental data. In spite of the previous findings that bode badly for using predominately Geldart B drag models for fine particles, the results of our study reveal that if static regions of mass in the fluidized beds are considered, these drag models work well with Geldart A particles. It was found that the seven drag models could be divided into two categories based on their performance. One category included the Gidaspow family of drag models (Gidaspow, Gidaspow-Blend, and Wen-Yu) and the Syamlal-O’Brien drag model; these models closely predicted the experiments for single solids phase fluidization. For binary mixtures, however, the other drag model group (BVK, HYS, Koch and Hill) yielded better predictions.


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