Handbook of Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems Chemical Industries Series

This reference details particle characterization, dynamics, manufacturing, handling, and processing for the employment of multiphase reactors, as well as procedures in reactor scale-up and design for applications in the chemical, mineral, petroleum, power, cement and pharmaceuticals industries. The authors discuss flow through fixed beds, elutriation and entrainment, gas distributor and plenum design in fluidized beds, effect of internal tubes and baffles, general approaches to reactor design, applications for gasifiers and combustors, dilute phase pneumatic conveying, and applications for chemical production and processing. This is a valuable guide for chemists and engineers to use in their day-to-day work.

Particle characterization and dynamics. Flow through fixed beds. Bubbling fluidized beds. Elutriation and entrainment. Effect of temperature and pressure. Gas distributor and plenum design in fluidized beds. Effect of internal tubes and baffles. Attrition. Modelling. Heat transfer. Mass transfer. General approaches to reactor design. Fluidized bed scaleup. Applications for fluid catalytic cracking. Applications for gasifiers and combustors. Applications for chemical production and processing. Applications for coating and granulation. Applications for fluidized bed drying. Circulating fluidized beds. Other nonconventional fluidized beds. Standpipes and nonmechanical valves. Cyclone separators. Dilute phase pneumatic conveying. Electrostatics in pneumatic conveying. Instrumentation and measurements. Liquid-solids fluidization. Gas-liquid-solid three-phase fluidization. Liquid-solids separation.