The process of fluidized bed spray granulation unites the steps of solid formation and product formulation in one apparatus and is used to produce granules out of a liquid. Thereby, a melt is atomized into small droplets and sprayed into the fluidized bed, which consists of seed particles of the same material. Droplets deposit on the particles near the spray zone and form a film which solidifie...

The control of fluidized-bed operations processes is still one of the major areas of research due to the complexity of the process and the inherent nonlinearity and varying dynamics involved in its operation. There are varieties of problems in chemical engineering that can be formulated as NonLinear Programming (NLPs). The quality of the developed solution significantly affects the performa...

This article describes the bed expansion characteristics of a down-flow anaerobic fluidized bed reactor treating a synthetic wastewater. Experiments were carried out in a 0.08 m diameter and 1 m length PVC column. The carrier used was ground perlite (an expanded volcanic rock). Particles characteristics were 0.968 mm in diameter, specific density of 213 kg x m-3 and Umf (minimal fluidization ve...

Gasification of pyrolysis oil was studied in a fluidized bed over a wide temperature range (523-914 °C) with and without the use of nickel-based catalysts. Noncatalytically, a typical fuel gas was produced. Both a special designed fluid bed catalyst and a crushed commercial fixed bed catalyst showed an initial activity for syngas (H2 and CO) production at T >700 °C. However, these catalysts los...

Process development, cheaper bioreactor cost, and faster fermentation rate can aid in reducing the cost of fermentation. In this article, these ideas were combined in developing a previously introduced textile bioreactor for ethanol production. The bioreactor was developed to utilize flocculating yeast for ethanol production under anaerobic conditions. A mixing system, which works without aerat...

Microbial bioremediation of petroleum wastewater by phenol-degrading-bacteria holds promise in circumventing the issue of petroleum-spill related pollution. Herein, biodegradation of petroleum wastewater samples collected from oil refinery site was carried out in a fluidized bed bioreactor by Ca-alginate immobilized biomass of phenol-degrading strains of Bacillus cereus (AKG1 MTCC9817 and AKG2 ...

The hydrodynamic effect of varying operating parameters in the Fluidized Bed Combustor (FBC) has been of interest to FBC design and manufacturing. Some experiments to investigate the gas/particle flows in the gaseous fluidized bed were performed with laser-based Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA) to measure the rise velocity of the fluidizing particles. The robust experimental design method...

−− The present work is focused on evaluating the anaerobic digestion of complex substrates (proteins and carbohydrates) in anaerobic fluidized bed reactors (AFBRs). In a previous paper, an AFBR model was adjusted using only the experimental data obtained during the acclimatization stage (glucose and acetate-based feeding) of two mesophilic bioreactors. Here, the sensitivity of that model to rep...

N2O emissions from coal fired fluidized-bed combustion are approximately 30–360 mg/Nm, much higher than that from pulverized coal combustion (less than 30 mg/Nm). One approach to reduce the N2O is to reburn the biomass gasification gas in the coal-fired fluidized bed. In this paper, the effects of gasified biomass reburning on the integrated boiler system were investigated by both simulation an...