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Solids entrainment in a large gas fluidized bed
Author(s) -
Fournol A. B.,
Bergougnou M. A.,
Baker C. G. J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450510402
Subject(s) - froude number , entrainment (biomusicology) , mechanics , fluidized bed , particle size , fluidization , materials science , thermodynamics , chemistry , physics , breakup , rhythm , acoustics
Entrainment from a gas fluidized bed of cracking catalyst in a 2‐ft diameter column equipped with continuous solids recycle has been studied. Radial profiles of entrainment rate and mean particle size were relatively flat. The entrainment rate decreased rapidly with increasing height above the bed and with decreasing fluidizing velocity. The existence of a transport disengaging height above which the entrainment rate and mean particle size become essentially constant was confirmed experimentally. This may be taken as the height above the bed surface at which the inverse Froude number becomes equal to 1000.