Comparative analysis of the steady-state and transient properties a bubbling fluidized-bed catalytic reactor obtained according to different mathematical models emulsion zone was performed verify commonly used assumption regarding pseudohomogeneous nature this zone. Four dynamics were formulated, based on thermal diffusional conditions at gas-solid interface within catalyst pellet, namely model...

in this paper, experimental data on the drying kinetics of corn in a packed and fluidized bed are presented. experimental research was conducted on a laboratory apparatus. corn was used as a material because of its significance in agriculture and the food industry. an analysis of the influence of the operational parameters (the drying medium velocity i. e. the fluidization number, the drying me...

BACKGROUND Cells resident in certain hollow organs are subjected routinely to large transient stretches, including every adherent cell resident in lungs, heart, great vessels, gut, and bladder. We have shown recently that in response to a transient stretch the adherent eukaryotic cell promptly fluidizes and then gradually resolidifies, but mechanism is not yet understood. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS I...

Particle size enlargement is the process of transforming fine particles into larger particles by the introduction of external forces, and is a value-added step in many processes involving powdered materials. There are many different reasons to enlarge particle size, including increased flowability and improved product shape and appearance. With the multitude of options available to achieve enla...

in the computational fluid dynamics (cfd) modeling of gas-solids two phase flow, the effect of boundary conditions play an important role in predicting the hydrodynamic characteristics of fluidized beds. in this work, the hydrodynamics of conical fluidized bed containing dried tio2 nano-agglomerates were studied both experimentally and computationally. the pressure drop was obtained by pressure...

[1] The partial fluidization model developed by Aranson and Tsimring (2002) is used to simulate the spreading of a 2D circular cap of granular material over an erodible bed made of the same material. Numerical results show that the presence of even a very thin layer of granular material lying on the solid bed strongly increases the mobility of granular flows. Furthermore, as the thickness of th...

Though discrete particle simulation (DPS) has been widely used for investigating gas-solid flows from a more detailed level as compared to traditional two-fluid models (TFM), it is still seriously limited by the computational cost when large scale systems are simulated. GPUs (graphic processing units), with their massive parallel architecture and high floating point performance, provide new pos...

In the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of gas-solids two phase flow, the effect of boundary conditions play an important role in predicting the hydrodynamic characteristics of fluidized beds. In this work, the hydrodynamics of conical fluidized bed containing dried TiO2 nano-agglomerates were studied both experimentally and computationally. The pressure drop ...

Article history: Received 2 August 2017 Received in revised form 29 October 2017 Accepted 13 November 2017 Available online 21 November 2017 Many important engineering applications involve the interaction of free-moving objects with dispersed multiphase flows, however due to the challenge and complexity ofmodelling these systems,modelling approaches remain very limited and very few studies have...

The main limitation of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is its maximum operating temperature, since the fluid used as heat transfer (HTF) and thermal storage media (TES) molten salts, which degrade around 565 °C. Therefore, there great interest in developing HTFs that allow working temperature to be increased more than This increase will, turn, CSP plant efficiency enhanced. Different studies hav...