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Hydrodynamic study of gas and solid flow through a screen‐packing
Author(s) -
Claus G.,
Vergnes F.,
Goff P. Le
Publication year - 1976
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.5450540304
Subject(s) - raschig ring , countercurrent exchange , fluidization , packed bed , mechanics , materials science , dilution , flow (mathematics) , fluidized bed , pressure drop , chromatography , thermodynamics , chemistry , physics
Many drawbacks of conventional gas fluidized beds can be avoided by filling the column with a fixed wire‐screen Raschig ring packing of high voidage. Such systems have been studied in batch and countercurrent continuous mode. Excellent fluidization occurs with relatively coarse particles but not with smaller particles. In batch systems, the expansion is given by a Capes and McIlhinney type power law and the contribution of the packing to support the bed can be up 20 percent of the weight of solid. In countercurrent systems, for each gas velocity two operating points can occur: the dilute or the dense phase bed in the same way as for gas liquid flow. All increases in the flow of the solid or in the dilution of the bed lead the packing to support a greater part of the grains.