Flow Characteristics in Slot‐Rectangular Spouted Beds with Draft Plates

An experimental investigation was conducted of slot‐rectangular spouted beds with air entry slots spanning the full thickness of the column and vertical draft plates intended to help control the solids circulation rate. With increasing superficial gas velocity, the flow between the draft plates changed from bubbling to slugging and then to spouting with dilute pneumatic between the plates and moving‐bed downward motion on both sides. However, there was difficulty maintaining stability and symmetrical flow on the two sides. Once spouting is established, pressure drops and local voidages vary with gas velocity, particle size and gas entry size in broadly similar manners as for conventional spouted beds     

大尺寸喷动床最低喷动速度的估算

最低喷动速度是喷动床设计的重要参数之一。过去人们习惯采用Mathur-Gisher公式来计算,但由于该公式是建立在小直径床层(D_c=0.076～0.3m)实验的基础上的,故在大直径床层上应用时,产生明显的偏差。本文通过实际数据分析,提出了大直径喷动床层最低喷动速度计算的经验公式。     

二维导流管喷动床的流动特征

带导流管的二维喷动床(2-DSBDP)是传统喷动床的改进型式,矩形床内设置的与床同厚的垂直导流管可以控制固体颗粒的循环速率, 同时使下行区中的气固移动床维持平推流. 本文实验测定了不同表观气速、床层高度、固体颗粒与气体入口尺寸时, 二维导流管喷动床的床压降及相应的空隙率,藉以阐述2-DSBDP的流动特征.     

双喷嘴矩形喷动床中最小喷动速度的实验研究

在双喷嘴矩形喷动床内,以空气为喷动气体,研究了最小喷动速度的变化规律和影响因素。实验表明,双喷嘴矩形喷动床的最小喷动速度与颗粒粒径、床层高度及操作温度有关。并在综合考虑床层高度以及气体和固体颗粒的物性的基础上,得出了双喷嘴矩形喷动床最小喷动时雷诺数的经验关联式。     

Spouted Beds of Inert Particles for Drying Suspension

A brief review of Brazilian research on drying process in spouted beds shows its relevance and evolution trends. Needs for applying this technique to dry pasty materials are discussed, focusing on a new model approach in order to overcome operational problems with particle agglomeration and with thermal efficiency. Based on this approach, two cases, drying of black liquor in a conical spouted bed of inert polypropylene particles under intermittent operation and drying of egg emulsion in a conical spouted bed of inert glass beads under continuous operation, are presented and analyzed.     

Spouted Beds of Inert Particles for Drying Suspension

ABSTRACT

A brief review of Brazilian research on drying process in spouted beds shows its relevance and evolution trends. Needs for applying this technique to dry pasty materials are discussed, focusing on a new model approach in order to overcome operational problems with particle agglomeration and with thermal efficiency. Based on this approach, two cases, drying of black liquor in a conical spouted bed of inert polypropylene particles under intermittent operation and drying of egg emulsion in a conical spouted bed of inert glass beads under continuous operation, are presented and analyzed.     

Design Parameter Effects on Expansion in Fluidized Beds with Inserts

The effect of some design parameters on the expansion of particles has been studied in a fluidized bed of 300 mm diameter. Four distributors were examined; three perforated plates, each perforated by holes of 0.8 mm in diameter but different hole densities at 6 mm, 9 mm and 12 mm pitch, and a porous plastic distributor 17 mm thick. Particles of different materials in the Archimedes number range from 100 to 10⁵ were fluidized. The inserts were held vertically as arrays. All experimental data for four distributors were correlated within experimental error by the equation: whereU, U_mf, U₀ are the gas velocity, velocity at minimum fluidization and real or apparent terminal velocity, while e is the bed porosity and e_mf is the porosity at the condition of minimum fluidization. P is the hole pitch of perforated plate distributor in millimeters.     

Minimum Spouting Velocity of Draft Tube Conical Spouted Beds Using the Neural Network Approach

A multilayer perceptron with back‐propagation learning algorithm is developed to predict the minimum spouting velocity (u_ms) in draft tube conical spouted beds. Six dimensionless variables involving ten essential geometric and operating parameters of the beds were taken as model inputs. To compare the model results with both experimental data and those predicted by the limited existing empirical equations, the root mean square error and the mean relative error are utilized. Although there is a complex relationship between the input variables and u_ms, and despite the huge number of data available, the steps of training and testing show good agreement with the corresponding experimental values. This demonstrates that an artificial neural network is a useful approach to predict u_ms, especially when the relationship between the geometric and operating parameters and u_ms is complex and difficult to define.     

使用导流管对连续喷动干燥器的影响

在欧洲市场,对使用诸如团块状的生物质燃料的关注日益增长。本文给出了使用带有不同类型导流管的连续喷动干燥锯末的实验数据。对不同进口和出口温度下湿锯末干燥进行了研究。在喷动干燥器中,干燥能力取决于热流量大小。实验结果表明,导流管能够提高干燥能力。此外,导流管的设计对热流量利用有影响。     

Residence Time Distributions in Staged Spouted Beds

A novel design of a multi‐staged, continuous flow spouted bed, suitable for counter‐current, cross‐current, and fed‐batch gas‐solid contacting is developed. Single and three‐stage conter‐flow units are studied, the residence time distributions (RTD's) of the solids therein are measured and two compartmental models are developed to fit this family of RTD's. The first (two‐parameter) model is satisfactory for the single stage units, and three‐stage units at high gas flow rates. The second (three‐parameter) model describes each stage as two CSTVs in parallel with a PFV in series. It provides better agreement with experimental data in the three‐stage case.     

喷动床研究与进展

叙述了近年来出现的几种改型喷动床，包括多喷头喷动床、喷动流化床、带导向管的喷动床、性粒子旋转射流式喷动床、射流喷动床的研究与进展。它们在传统柱锥形喷动床的基础上，通过增加喷口、导向管、流化气、惰性粒子或增加喷动气速等方法，来克服原有喷动床应用的局限性，拓展其应用领域。     

Grain Drying in a Paraboloid-Based Spouted Bed with and without Draft Tube

In this study, grain drying in a spherical-based spouted bed (SBSB), a cone-based spouted bed (CBSB), and a paraboloid-based spouted bed (PBSB) with and without draft tube was investigated. Spouted-bed bases with the same volume in different shapes—spherical, cone, and paraboloid—were used for the drying experiments to investigate the effect of the spouted-bed base shape on drying. The drying experiments were carried out with perforated and solid draft tubes. The effects of the distance between the gas inlet nozzle and the bottom of the draft tube (entrainment zone height) and the draft tube diameter as geometric parameters on drying were also investigated. It was seen that the geometrical shape of the contactor base influenced the drying time. The highest drying rate was achieved for drying in a paraboloid-based spouted bed. The results also showed that using a draft tube caused a significant increase in drying time. Because the perforated draft tube allows a higher gas flow rate through the annulus, it decreases the drying time when compared with the solid draft tube. Drying time decreased slightly with the decreasing height of the entrainment zone but draft tube diameter did not have a considerable effect on drying.     

Drying of Pharmaceuticals: The Applicability of Spouted Beds

This study evaluates the performance of conventional spouted beds (CSB) with inert bodies in the drying of pharmaceutical pastes, based on the dry product quality. The powder obtained by drying annatto extracts shows properties comparable to one of the commercial products, indicating that the spouting is competitive with other industrial and lab-scale processes. The contents of bixin and caffeine in annatto and guarana dry powders demonstrated a strong dependence on the inlet air temperature. Also, the properties of indomethacin-containing microcapsules dried in CSB and spray dryers revealed that spouting is a promising technique to obtain pharmaceutical forms with unique drug release qualities.     

Drying of Pharmaceuticals: The Applicability of Spouted Beds

ABSTRACT

This study evaluates the performance of conventional spouted beds (CSB) with inert bodies in the drying of pharmaceutical pastes, based on the dry product quality. The powder obtained by drying annatto extracts shows properties comparable to one of the commercial products, indicating that the spouting is competitive with other industrial and lab-scale processes. The contents of bixin and caffeine in annatto and guarana dry powders demonstrated a strong dependence on the inlet air temperature. Also, the properties of indomethacin-containing microcapsules dried in CSB and spray dryers revealed that spouting is a promising technique to obtain pharmaceutical forms with unique drug release qualities.     

矩形导流管喷动床下行区的床层压降

带导流管的矩形喷动床是传统喷动床的改进型式,矩形床内设置的与床同厚的垂直导流管,可以控制固体颗粒的内循环速率,同时使下行区中的气固移动床维持平推流.本文实验测定了不同表观气速、床层重量、不同固体颗粒与气体入口形式与尺寸时,矩形导流管喷动床下行区的床层压降,以考察其流动特征.实验结果表明,下行区存在床层压降的轴向分布,气固流动处于负压差下移上流区,且气固滑移速度自下而上是逐渐下降的.下行区颗粒床层的压降以及颗粒的移动下输,受到喷动床表观气速、床高、喷嘴尺寸、物料种类和颗粒直径的不同影响.     

Identification of Flow Regimes in Slot‐Rectangular Spouted Beds using Pressure Fluctuations

Pressure fluctuation data recorded in slot‐rectangular spouted beds of 1.44 mm diameter glass beads were analyzed with the aid of statistical and chaotic tools. The column width was maintained at 150 mm, while the thickness and slot width were both varied. It is shown that there are significant shifts in both statistical and chaos measures as the gas flow rate is increased. The results suggest that pressure fluctuations can be used to provide diagnostics of flow regime transitions in spouted beds when viewing is impossible.     

An Experimental Study on the Influence of Using a Draft Tube in a Continuous Spouted Bed Dryer

Further increasing the production of processed biofuel also increases the demands on drying capacity. With the aim of increasing the heat capacity flow, experimental tests have been performed on the process of drying sawdust in a continuous spouted bed dryer with nine different draft tube designs. The results showed that a draft tube with an increased length and an increased disengagement height decreased the dry substances’ flow rate throughout the dryer. The results also showed that the mass of the material in the dryer was approximately the same in all the tests. This means that the draft tubes, no matter their size, do not influence the amount of material in the dryer.     

Study of Flow Characteristics of Ultrafine CaCO3 Powders in a Spouted Bed

The flow behavior of gas and ultrafine powder in a spouted bed was numerically investigated by using a two‐fluid model coupled with a population balance equation (PBE). The aggregation process is controlled by the PBE, which is solved by the direct quadrature method of moments. The agglomerate diameter is calculated according to the change in particle number. The solid pressure and viscosity were modified for agglomerates on the basis of the kinetic theory of granular flow. Distributions of diameter, solids volume fraction, and velocity are obtained by the new model. The influence of cohesive intensity and gas velocity on the diameter distribution were analyzed. The spout diameter, a vital parameter for the design of spouted beds, was calculated and a calculation formula is proposed.     

Influence of Effective Particle Porosity on Vacuum Fluidized Bed Drying

A series of vacuum fluidized bed drying experiments was carried out employing particles with distinct effective porosities. The experiments showed that decreasing the operating pressure as well as increasing the operating temperature produces higher drying rates in both drying periods. In all cases, the enhancement of the drying rates was found to be more significant in the case of particles with higher effective porosities. It is concluded that lower operating pressures as well as higher operating temperatures help to reduce the formation of air pockets in the pores and postpone the onset of the pendular state, enhancing the capillary action and the drying rates.     

Analysis of Fluid Dynamics Behavior of Conical Spouted Bed in Presence of Pastes

Abstract

A conical spouted bed (CSB) was employed to obtain the drying and fluid dynamics data in the presence of egg paste and glycerol for a range of operating conditions. In this case, egg paste was added continuously into the bed at several feed rates, whereas glycerol was fed in batch process. Under these conditions, minimum spouting velocity, pressure drop, fountain height, paste concentration, and film moisture content were evaluated. The results showed that ΔP_s and U_ms decreases with increasing glycerol concentration; however, U_ms presented an opposite behavior for egg paste. Fountain height increases with increasing glycerol into the bed. Film moisture content and homogenized egg paste concentration were maintained uniformly scattered at all points of the bed. In addition, the methodology proposed by Schneider and Bridgwater^{[ 1} Schneider , T. ; Bridgwater , J. The stability of wet spouted beds . Drying Technology 1993 , 11 ( 2 ), 277 – 301 .[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] ^] showed itself to be appropriate for predicting stable spouting regimes. Furthermore, most of the experimental data of this study was compared to other results and to some empirical and mechanistic models reported in literature. Thus, our experimental data could be well described by an empirical model like Passos and Mujumdar's^{[ 2} Passos , M.L. ; Mujumdar , A.S. Effect of cohesive forces on fluidized and spouted beds of wet particles . Powder Technology 2000 , 110 , 222 – 238 . [CROSSREF] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] ^] model. On the other hand, the mechanistic model proposed by Cunha^{[ 3} Cunha , F.O. Contributions to the analyses of drying of pastes in spouted bed with inert particles . M.Sc. Thesis , Federal University of Sao Carlos , Brazil . 1999 . ( In Portuguese ). [Google Scholar] ^] overestimated the theoretical minimum spouting velocity at a range of values of 10 to 25%.