Gas–solid conversion in fluidised bed reactors

Fluidised bed drying of soybeans.

The fluidised bed drying characteristics of soybeans at high temperatures (110-140 degrees C) and moisture contents, 31-49% dry basis, were modelled using drying equations from the literature. Air speeds of 2.4-4.1 m/s and bed depths from 10 to 15 cm were used. The minimum fluidised bed velocity was 1.9 m/s. From a quality point of view, fluidised bed drying was found to reduce the level of ure...

A Study of Fluidised Bed Granulation

I\I: ei:peril1lr~n:al s+;udy 01' f l L!idis2d ~eci 0ranulatiu.l is pre~ent2d. Preliminury ex~e;ililentc, est?~,;lisn the mCl i 1-, variabl'_s in the granulation pr'ocess and er.able a systemc.tic cxperimcr.tal programme to be Jevised. In this programrre, f';ither glass p(jwdel~ Ol~ po,ous alum~na are used as the bed rrateY·ial. The ef'ft~cts of the f:.mdame!1tal fluiciised bed granulation param...

Biomass gasification with NiO/Olivine catalysts in fluidised bed gasifier

Tar removal from biomass gasification gas is a crucial problem in applying syngas from biomass for its downstream applications. Catalytic biomass gasification has given promising results for tar cracking. A few research groups have investigated the use of olivine for tar cracking [2,3,4,7,8,9,10]. The presence of oxides of iron and magnesium in the mineral olivine give it the ability to crack h...

Concealed haemorrhage in patients nursed on an air fluidised bed.

Discrete Element Modelling of Fluidised Bed Spray Granulation

A novel discrete element spray granulation model capturing the key features of fluidised bed hydrodynamics, liquid-solid contacting and agglomeration is presented. The model computes the motion of every individual particle and droplet in the system, considering the gas phase as a continuum. Micro scale processes such as particle-particle collisions, droplet-particle coalescence and agglomeratio...