Experimental methods in chemical engineering: Reactors—fluidized beds
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Abstract
Industry relies on fluidized beds to synthesize chemicals (acrylonitrile, maleic anhydride, titanium dioxide, vinyl chloride), combust coal, dry powders, and treat waste. Fluidized bed folklore declares that they are hard to scale‐up and the gas phase is backmixed. Commercial failures that disregard standard design criteria around powder management, gas/solids injection, and mixing reinforce this belief. However, engineers select fluidized beds for processes that are impractical with conventional technologies to achieve economies of scale for highly exothermic, endothermic, or explosive reactions, for catalysts that deactivate in seconds (or minutes), and for chemistry that requires multiple dosing cycles. Failures are more frequent for these challenging applications. For this reason, researchers study reaction kinetics in fixed beds despite internal mass transfer limitations and axial and radial temperature and concentration gradients. Fluidized bed hydrodynamics vary with powder properties (particle diameter, size distribution, density, sphericity), operating conditions (gas density, viscosity, temperature, pressure), reactor geometry (diameter, height, mass, grid geometry). The minimum fluidization velocity ( U mf ) is a property that identifies the transition from the fixed bed regime to the fluidized bed regime and equals the gas velocity at which the upward drag force equals the weight of the powder. At the experimental scale, fluidized beds operate isothermally, solids are completely backmixed, and the gas phase is close to plug flow ( ). Here, we describe the relationship between powder properties and fluidization quality, list experimental techniques, describe recent applications, and gas phase hydrodynamics and uncertainties.
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