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Effect of pressure on thermal aspects in the riser column of a pressurized circulating fluidized bed
Author(s) -
Gupta A. V. S. S. K. S.,
Reddy B. V.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.1131
Subject(s) - fluidized bed combustion , heat transfer , fluidized bed , particle (ecology) , heat transfer coefficient , fluidization , thermodynamics , materials science , chemistry , mechanics , thermal , phase (matter) , geology , oceanography , physics , organic chemistry
In the present paper the effect of pressure on bed‐to‐wall heat transfer in the riser column of a pressurized circulating fluidized bed (PCFB) unit is estimated through a modified mechanistic model. Gas–solid flow structure and average cross‐sectional solids concentration play a dominant role in better understanding of bed‐to‐wall heat transfer mechanism in the riser column of a PCFB. The effect of pressure on average solids concentration fraction ‘ c ’ in the riser column is analysed from the experimental investigations. The basic cluster renewal model of an atmospheric circulating fluidized bed has been modified to consider the effect of pressure on different model parameters such as cluster properties, gas layer thickness, cluster, particle, gas phase, radiation and bed‐to‐wall heat transfer coefficients, respectively. The cluster thermal conductivity increases with system pressure as well as with bed temperature due to higher cluster thermal properties. The increased operating pressure enhances the particle and dispersed phase heat transfer components. The bed‐to‐wall heat transfer coefficient increases with operating pressure, because of increased particle concentration. The predicted results from the model are compared with the experimentally measured values as well as with the published literature, and a good agreement has been observed. The bed‐to‐wall heat transfer coefficient variation along the riser height is also reported for different operating pressures. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.