FUNDAMENTALS OF A CENTRIFUGAL FLUIDIZED-BED
FUNDAMENTALS OF A CENTRIFUGAL FLUIDIZED-BED
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DOI:
10.1002/aic.690330504
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发表时间:
1987-05-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
CHEN, YM
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作者:
CHEN, YM
For many purposes, a fluidized bed has the merits of high heat and mass transfer rates, temperature homogeneity, and high flowability of particles. These features are particularly important for continuously operating, large-scale gas-solid reacting systems, and hence have wide applications in many industrial processes, such as FCC, fluid coking, and others. In most of these processes, vertical fluidized beds are used. In a vertical particle bed, when the aeration is increased to a point such that the gravitational force on the particles is counterbalanced by the fluid drag exerted by the interstitial gas flow, the particle bed is fluidized. However, if a large excess amount of aeration is introduced, it simply forms large bubbles, or slugs, that pass the bed very rapidly. In such a case, the gas-solid contact becomes rather poor, due to extensive bypassing. In some operations, such as coal combustion and drying, in order to reduce the reactor size it is preferred to have high superficial gas velocity. In such processes the vertical bed becomes handicapped, so a relatively new concept, the centrifugal fluidized bed, is introduced for this special purpose. A centrifugal fluidized bed is a cylindrical bucket rotating about its axis of symmetry with aeration introduced in the inward direction of the radius to fluidize the particles. Instead of having a fixed gravitational field as in a vertical bed, the body force in a centrifugal bed becomes an adjustable parameter that is determined by the rotation speed and the bucket radius. By using a strong centrifugal field much greater than gravity, the particle bed is able to withstand a large amount of aeration without serious formation of large bubbles and the gas-solid contact at a high aeration rate is improved.