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Solids mixing in fluidized beds
Author(s) -
Woollard I. N. M.,
Potter O. E.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690140310
Subject(s) - bubble , fluidization , fluidized bed , tracer , mixing (physics) , porosity , volume (thermodynamics) , spheres , materials science , inviscid flow , mechanics , mineralogy , thermodynamics , chemistry , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy , nuclear physics
The movement of solids associated with the rise of a single gas bubble in an incipiently fluidized bed has been determined. The bulk volume, measured at the porosity of incipient fluidization, of tracer solid which is transported across the original interface between undyed glass spheres in the upper region and dyed glass spheres (tracer solid) in the lower region, is approximately 30% of the bubble volume. The measurements relate to bubble volumes from 14 to 200 ml. in a glass column, 4 in. diam. Solids used were glass spheres of diameter 380 μ. The profile created when a bubble rises through a layer of fluidized tracer solids into the fluidized solids above the tracer layer has been approximately determined. The distance by which the solids were displaced upward, due to the passage of the bubble, was found to be greater than would have been the case if the behavior were that of a sphere in an inviscid liquid.