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Flow of solids in an interconnected fluidized beds system investigated using positron emission particle tracking
Author(s) -
Stellema Cornelis S.,
Gerritsen Albert W.,
Kolar Zvonimir I.,
de Goeij Jeroen J. M.,
Van Den Bleek Cornelis M.
Publication year - 2001
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.5450790303
Subject(s) - tracking (education) , mechanics , eulerian path , autocorrelation , fluidized bed , particle tracking velocimetry , flow (mathematics) , particle (ecology) , fluidization , computation , flow velocity , physics , statistical physics , turbulence , computer science , particle image velocimetry , thermodynamics , lagrangian , geology , algorithm , mathematics , psychology , pedagogy , statistics , oceanography , mathematical physics
The technique of Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) is applied to analyse non‐intrusively solids flow in a laboratory scale Interconnected Fluidized Beds system. It is shown that, with a high performance tracking system, it is possible to extract from the data not only the Eulerian ensemble average velocity field, but also to reconstruct density profiles and to calculate mass flows in a solids circulation system. The most interesting flow characteristics inside the Interconnected Fluidized Bed system are highlighted. Although the data analysis is largely Eulerian, a first approach to a Lagrangian analysis has been performed through the computation of velocity autocorrelation functions. Characteristic frequencies of the solids movement could not be identified, but the velocity autocorrelations did provide insight in the dynamics of the solids movement.