基于声发射信号递归分析的气固流化床流型转变

利用声发射技术采集不同流化气速下流化床内颗粒与壁面碰撞的声信号,结合声能量及递归分析法研究不同流型下颗粒运动特征,得到鼓泡流态化到湍动流态化的临界转变速度及流型转变规律。特别是针对声能量分析无法准确区分不同床层高度处流型转变的不足,利用递归分析可有效预测系统周期性的特点,将声信号进行递归分析,研究了流化床不同位置的流型转变性质。结果表明,鼓泡流态化下颗粒运动的周期性较湍动流态化强,并能够清晰地检测到由鼓泡流态化向湍动流态化的流型转变速度,而且床层较低处的流型转变速度比床层较高处大。由此获得了一种便捷灵敏、安全环保的非侵入式流化床流型转变速度的测量技术,可用于对整个流化床内不同位置流型转变过程的实时在线监控。     

Experimental investigation of electrostatic effect on particle motions in gas‐solid fluidized beds

The excess accumulation of charges in the fluidized bed has a severe impact on hydrodynamics. Due to lack of effective experimental methods, electrostatic effects on hydrodynamics have mostly been studied using numerical simulation. By injecting a trace of liquid antistatic agents into a fluidized bed, charges were controlled and electrostatic influences on particle motions were investigated. The average particle–wall impact angles are acquired by developing multiscale wavelet decomposition of acoustic emission signals. The impact angles are significantly influenced by both charge levels and gas velocities. If the electric force is reduced and/or fluid drag is increased, friction dominates the particle–wall interactions. Under a larger gas velocity where fluid drag dominates, charges elimination causes no significant variation in particle impact angles, but particle velocities increase as well as at lower gas velocities. In addition, existence of electrostatic charges influences the ranges of bubble growing zone and jet impacting zone. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 61: 3628–3638, 2015     

气固流化床中声发射和流动模式关系

颗粒在气固流化床壁面区域（或局部空间区域）碰撞产生的声波能量反映了颗粒的碰撞速度和频率（活跃程度）,从中可以揭示流化床内颗粒的流动混合模式。通过在φ150mm流化床冷模装置中,对聚乙烯颗粒－空气体系进行流态化实验,运用声发射技术测得声能量沿气固流化床的轴向分布,继而获得了颗粒的流动模式,并发现其与颗粒粒径、表观气速和分布板形式密切相关。对于颗粒粒径为460 μm的聚乙烯颗粒,当表观气速在0.3～0.7 m·s^-1内,其对应的流动模式为带有滞留区的双循环流动模式。如果气速增大到0.8 m·s^-1以上时,流动模式将转化为无滞留区的单循环流动模式。而当颗粒平均粒径降为365μm,对应的双循环流动模式蜕化为单循环模式,壁面不存在滞留区。进一步发现,滞留区位置与静床高无关。研究同时发现,颗粒的流动模式和分布板形式密切相关,对于在多孔平板分布板下为单循环流动模式的小粒径颗粒,在锥帽式分布板下,则在稍高气速时表现为双循环流动模式。     

Characterization on hydrodynamic behavior in liquid‐containing gas‐solid fluidized bed reactor

In many industrial processes involving gas–solid fluidized bed rectors, the addition of a liquid phase significantly alters the hydrodynamics. To fully characterize the hydrodynamics in the fluidized bed, pressure and acoustic measuring techniques were applied to study the behavior of gas bubbles and particles. A camera was used to take pictures to verify the pressure and acoustic results. During the liquid‐addition process, the pressure technique captured the bubble size variation and bubble motion while the acoustic technique reflected particle motion and particle size growth. Hurst and V‐statistics analyses of acoustic emission were used for the first time to detect periodic behavior during the injection process. The new break formation and change trend of V_max were used as the criteria to judge occurrence of abnormal fluidization states, such as agglomeration and gas channeling formation. These measurement techniques are beneficial in the elimination of adverse effects caused by the addition of liquid. © 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 59: 1056–1065, 2013     

气固流化床中声发生机理及在工业装置中的应用

利用声测量技术,结合频谱分析,建立了颗粒碰撞的声波频率模型,可定量描述声波主频随颗粒粒径、弹性模量和密度的变化规律.通过改变流化颗粒的粒径、弹性模量参数和密度,发现声波主频与频率模型计算值之间的最大偏差为8.3%,说明声波主频可以代表颗粒在壁面的碰撞频率.讨论了热态和冷态条件下声波主频之间变化规律,通过对弹性模量参数的校正,声测量技术可以用于预测工业装置中物料的平均粒径变化,并将该模型应用于线性低密度聚乙烯、高密度聚乙烯和双峰聚乙烯工业生产装置中的平均粒径测量,发现与传统的取样筛分方法所得测量结果十分接近.同时,发现当系统产生聚合物颗粒结块时,声波主频将急剧降低,声波频谱的能量分布将明显集中增大,这可作为判断流化床稳定运行的一个判据.     

Particles mixing induced by bubbles in a gas‐solid fluidized bed

The effect of bubble injection characteristics on the mixing behavior of a gas‐solid fluidized bed is investigated using a discrete particle model. The effect of different parameters including gas injection time, velocity, and mode are studied. Simulation results show that injecting gas at a constant gas flow rate in the form of small bubbles results in a better overall particle mixing. It was also found that the injection velocities have limited effect on particle mixing behavior for the same total gas volume injected into the bed. Moreover, the mixing index (MI) of continuous gas jet bubbling regime is compared with the MI obtained in uniform gas injection regime and the results revealed that the MI of continuous jet bubbling regime has a larger value than that of uniform gas injection regime at the fixed total gas flow rate. In both regimes, z‐direction MI is larger than x‐direction index. The differences between two direction indices are more noticeable in continuous jet bubbling in comparison with the uniform gas injection regime. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 62: 1430–1438, 2016     

Experimental and numerical research for fluidization behaviors in a gas–solid acoustic fluidized bed

The effects of sound assistance on fluidization behaviors were systematically investigated in a gas–solid acoustic fluidized bed. A model modified from Syamlal–O'Brien drag model was established. The original solid momentum equation was developed and an acoustic model was also proposed. The radial particle volume fraction, axial root‐mean‐square of bed pressure drop, granular temperature, and particle velocity in gas–solid acoustic fluidized bed were simulated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code Fluent 6.2. The results showed that radial particle volume fraction increased using modified drag model compared with that using the original one. Radial particle volume fraction was revealed as a parabolic concentration profile. Axial particle volume fraction decreased with the increasing bed height. The granular temperature increased with increasing sound pressure level. It showed that simulation values using CFD code Fluent 6.2 were in agreement with the experimental data. © 2009 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2010     

Transient multi gas—solid reactions in a bubbling fluidized bed

A “multimodel” for gas‐solid reactions in a reacting particle has been applied to a bubbling fluidized bed reactor. The particle is tracked and bed and particle variables are determined continuously. The conservation equations of mass and heat with auxiliary relations are solved in an accelerating particle, which may rise or fall. The effects of bulk pressure, velocity and temperature, and particle diameter are studied. Heat and mass transfer coefficients may fluctuate up to 75% and 148% respectively. Doubling the pressure changes h_c by 75% and k_c by ?45%. Increase in pellet diameter reduces both h_c and k_c.     

Effect of bed size on hydrodynamics in 3‐D gas–solid fluidized beds

It is well known that hydrodynamics observed in large scale gas–solid fluidized beds are different from those observed in smaller scale beds. In this article, an efficient two‐fluid model based on kinetic theory of granular flow is applied, with the goal to highlight and investigate hydrodynamics differences between three‐dimensional fluidized beds of diameter 0.10, 0.15, 0.30, 0.60, and 1.0 m, focusing on the bubble and solids flow characteristics in the bubbling regime. Results for the 0.30 m diameter bed are compared with experimental results from the literature. The bubble size evolution closely follows a correlation proposed by Werther for small beds, and a correlation proposed by Darton for sufficiently large beds. The bubble size increases as the bed diameter is increased from 0.10 to 0.30 m, and remains approximately constant for bed diameters from 0.30 to 1.0 m. Concurrently, an increase in bubble rise velocity is observed, with a much high bubble rise velocity in the largest bed of diameter 1.0 m due to gulf stream circulations. The dynamics in shallow and deep beds is predicted to be different, with marked differences in bubble size and solids circulation patterns. © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 61: 1492–1506, 2015     

Investigation into the hydrodynamics of gas–solid fluidized beds using particle image velocimetry coupled with digital image analysis

The hydrodynamics of a freely bubbling, pseudo 2‐D fluidized bed has been investigated experimentally for different bed aspect ratios at different superficial gas velocities by using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) combined with Digital Image Analysis (DIA). Coupling of both non‐invasive measuring techniques allows us to obtain information on both the bubble behaviour and emulsion phase circulation patterns simultaneously. In particular, the combination of DIA with PIV allows to correct for the influence of particle raining through the roof of the bubbles on the time‐averaged emulsion phase velocity profiles.     

Monitoring the fluidized bed reactor for polyethylene polymerization based on fibre optic acoustic emission sensor

This paper presents applications of a new class of fibre optic acoustic emission (FOAE) sensor to monitor the operation of fluidized bed reactors used in polyethylene production. Specifically, the sensor was implemented to detect undesired, abnormal phenomena related to particle agglomeration, wall sheeting, fine overflow, and variations in the superficial gas velocity. The experiments were executed using a fluidized bed cold model setup for polyethylene powders with average particle sizes of 250, 1000, and 2000 μm. The results demonstrated that the presence of agglomerated particles in the fluidized bed reactor increases the kurtosis of the acoustic emission (AE) signal. Furthermore, the overflow of small particles can be detected by mounting the FOAE sensor below the gas distributor plate and monitoring an increase in the root mean square (RMS) of the AE signal. The AE signal RMS increased with the rising superficial gas velocity. Besides, forming a sheet layer on the reactor wall decreased the AE signal RMS. The proposed sensor's main benefits are its simple design, rapid response to abnormal conditions in the fluidized bed reactor, immunity against electromagnetic noise, high-temperature resistance, and safety in hazardous areas.     

The screened waveguide for intrusive acoustic emission detection and its application in circulating fluidized bed

A screened waveguide with a 90° elbow, which had a rubber surface to reduce noise generations and a steel/air interface to block noise propagations, was designed to measure local particle movements in certain directions. In the riser of circulating fluidized bed, the noise energy only accounted for 2.1% of the total energy received by the waveguide. Besides, the radial acoustic emission energy distribution detected via the waveguide was highly consistent with the radial solid flux distribution measured by the extraction probe. Furthermore, the radial flow patterns in the riser with Geldart D particles were measured under dense phase conveying by this new method, which always demonstrated as core-annulus flows and the transition points (r/R) increased with decreasing solid–gas ratios.     

Borescopy in pressurized gas‐solid fluidized beds

A borescopic technique was used for finding the effect of pressure on the hydrodynamics of gas‐solid fluidized beds. The results showed that solids radial distribution may become more or less uniform with increasing pressure depending on the superficial gas velocity. Moreover, it is found that the solids volume fraction of the emulsion phase may decrease at relatively high pressures, only in the central region of the bed. Additionally, it is observed that with increasing pressure the bubble size generally decreased in the central regions and increased near the wall regions. This trend was more complicated at low excess gas velocities. The number of bubbles increased for the central regions and near the walls for all the performed experiments. However, this parameter showed a different trend at other radial positions. © 2018 The Authors AIChE Journal published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 64: 3303–3311, 2018     

Experiments on particle cluster behaviors in a fast fluidized bed

A three-dimensional (3D) fast fluidized bed with the riser of 3.0 m in height and 0.1 m in inner diameter was established to experimentally study the cluster behaviors ofGeldart B particles.Five kinds of quartz sand particles (dp =0.100,0.139,0.177,0.250 and 0.375 mm and ρp =2480 kg·m-3) were respectively investigated,with the total mass of the bed material kept as 10 kg.The superficial gas velocity in the riser ranges from 2.486 to 5.594 m·s-1 and the solid mass flux alters from 30 to 70 kg· (m 2· s)-1.Cluster characteristics and evolutionary processes in the different positions of the riser were captured by the cluster visualization systems and analyzed by the self-developed binary image processing.The results found four typical cluster structures in the riser,i.e.,the macro stripe-shaped cluster,saddle-shaped cluster,U-shaped cluster and the micro cluster.The increasing superficial gas velocity and particle sizes result in the increasing average cluster size and the decreasing cluster time fraction,while the solid mass flux in the riser have the reverse influences on the cluster size and time fraction.Additionally,clusters in the upper region of the riser often have the larger size and time fraction than that in the lower region.All these effects of operating conditions on clusters become less obvious when particle size is less than 0.100 mm.