A comprehensive and up-to-date look at fluidization processes
Fluidization Processes: Design and Operation delivers a thorough, practical guide to the design and operation of gas-solid fluidized-bed systems. It grounds readers in the critical concepts that underpin industrial performance, including jets, bubbles, entrainment, heat transfer, particle cohesion, attrition, and fluidization regimes.
With a strong emphasis on application, the book explains key design calculations and modeling approaches used in industry. It also provides scale-up methodologies and essential design considerations, along with discussions of bubbling and turbulent fluidized-bed hydrodynamics, circulating fluidized bed (CFB) riser hydrodynamics, and the major components of fluidized-bed units.
Readers will also find:
- Thorough introductions to core fluidization concepts and particle properties, including Geldart particle classifications
- Comprehensive coverage of fluidization regimes, including particle elutriation and entrainment
- Practical discussions of design and operation, including distributors, attrition and erosion
- Complete treatments of cyclone design and operation, diplegs and standpipes, and pressure-loop calculations
Perfect for chemical engineers and process engineers, Fluidization Processes: Design and Operation will also benefit environmental engineers, catalytic chemists, materials scientists, and industrial chemists.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1 Packed bed and CSTR overview
1.2 Fluidized bed overview
2. Industrial application
2.1 Gasification
2.2 Pyrolysis
2.3 Combustion
2.4 Cracking
2.5 Chlorination
2.6 Polyolefins
2.7 Acrylonitrile
2.8 MTBE
2.9 Polycrystalline Silicon FBR
2.10 Chemical looping
2.11 Mining and metal recovery
2.12 Dryers and Heat Treaters
3. Gas-Solid Fluidization Regimes
3.1 Particle properties
3.2 Minimum fluidization
3.3 Bubbling fluidization
3.4 Turbulent fluidization
3.5 Fast-fluidization
3.6 Transport beds
4. Jets
5. Bubbles
5.1 Bubble size
5.2 Bubble rise velocity
5.3 Bubble volume fraction
5.4 Measuring bubble bubble properties
5.5 Bubble models
6. Entrainment
6.1 TDH
6.2 Entrainment flux
7. Mass Transfer
7.1 Dispersion vs mass transfer
7.2 Models
8. Heat Transfer
8.1 Convection conduction
8.2 Radiation
8.3 Heat transfer correlations
9. Particle cohesion
9.1 Interparticle forces
9.2 Particle cluster size
9.3 Effects of entrainment
10. Particle Attrition and Erosion
10.1 Jets (Werther and Ghadiri)
10.2 Cyclones (Reppenhaggen, Werther)
10.3 Testing
11. Fluidized Bed Design
11.1 Distributor
11.2 Cyclones
11.3 Internals
11.4 Reactor modeling
11.5 Riser
11.6 Riser terminator
11.7 Stripper
11.8 Regenerator
11.9 Standpipes and diplegs
11.10 Transfer lines
12. Cyclone Design
12.1 Cyclone types
12.2 Cyclone design
12.3 Cyclone collection efficiency
12.4 Cyclone pressure drop
12.5 Diplegs
13. Pressure Loops and PL Calculations
13.1 Fluidized beds
13.2 Cyclones
13.3 CFBs
13.4 Standpipe pressure buildings
13.5 Pressure loop calculations and circulation
14. Modeling Fluidized Beds and CFBs
14.1 ROM
14.2 PBM
14.3 CFD
14.4 DEM-CFD
14.5 Hybrids
15. Scaling Up Methodologies for Fluidized Beds
15.1 Tools
15.2 Scale Up Path
15.3 Economics
About the Author :
Jia Wei Chew, Ph.D., is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). She has worked in both academia and industry, with research interests in multiphase flow and separations.
Ray Cocco, Ph.D., is President and CEO of Particles in Motion, LLC. He has spent most of his career in industry, where his work has contributed to the development of several particle technology platforms.
