The objective of much fluidisation research has been the prediction of industrial beds, which are often large and operated at high pressure and temperature. This may be achieved through the use of Eulerian two-fluid models. Two such models have been compared with experimental results of the structure of a jet in a bubbling fluidised bed. In the first two-fluid model the particles are treated as...

Work is focused to the study of unburned carbon in ash from coal (and wastes) combustion in 8 combustion tests at 3 fluidised-bed power station, at co-combustion of coal and wastes (also at fluidized bed) and at bench-scale unit simulating coal combustion in small domestic furnaces. The attention is paid to unburned carbon contents in bottom ashes and fly ashes at these 8 combustion tests and t...

Liquid injection in fluidized beds occurs well-established industrial processes as fluid coking, spray fluidzed bed granulation and condensed mode gas-phase polymerisation. These still suffer performance issues due to their complex nature, where liquid adds even more complexity. In this work, the effect of on temperature uniformity a pseudo-2D was studied using Infra-Red Thermography. The image...

An inhalation exposure chamber, referred to as the Small Animal Inhalation Rig (SAIR) has been designed to expose test subjects to inhalation aerosols whilst minimising the amount of compound used. This inhalation chamber may be employed for acute inhalation studies with dry powder aerosols involving mice, rats or guinea pigs. This rig consists of two main parts; a fluidised bed aerosol generat...

The paper reports on a current research on fluidised bed gasification of biomass and coals. The focus is on the bed material agglomeration and fragmentation phenomena that are well known to affect the reliability and the efficiency of fluidized bed combustion processes. Preliminary results of dedicated tests at high temperature are reported and discussed in the paper. On the whole, agglomeratio...

The practical feasibility and generic applicability of the direct integration of cell disruption by bead milling with the capture of intracellular products by fluidised bed adsorption has been demonstrated. Pilot-scale purification of the enzyme L-asparaginase from unclarified Erwinia chrysanthemi disruptates exploiting this novel approach yielded an interim product which rivalled or bettered t...

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...