Gas—solids contact efficiency in a high-velocity fluidised bed
Gas—solids contact efficiency in a high-velocity fluidised bed
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DOI:
10.1016/0032-5910(87)80111-0
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发表时间:
1987-10
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
R. Dry;I. Christensen;C. White
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作者:
R. Dry;I. Christensen;C. White
The efficiency of contact between gas and solid phases in a high-velocity fluidised bed of FCC catalyst has been measured. The technique involves the use of heated gas as a reacting tracer and detection of this hot gas by a rapid-response thermocouple. The resulting measurement indicates how much gas emerges at the outlet from the bed without having come into contact with any solid particles. This type of information could have significant implications for the design and operation of commercial high-velocity systems.Contact efficiencies are presented for a 0.09-m I.D. experimental rig, with gas velocities in the range 2 to 8 m/s and solids circulation rates of up to 200 kg m−2s−1. Gas—solids contact appears to be almost complete at 2 m/s for a solids rate exceeding 100 kg m−2s−1, but decreases steadily as gas velocity is increased. At 8 m/s, it appears that contact efficiencies are significantly less than 100%, even at solids rates approaching 200 kg m−2s−1.A simple model is used to estimate the ratio of effective to actual particle surface area in the bed, and this defines a surface efficiency which is found to lie in the range 0.01 to 0.13%. It is suggested that this could be related to the proportion of particles which are free to move as individuals at any instant, as opposed to particles which make up loose agglomerates such as streamers or dense wall regions.