Drying characteristics of starch in an inert medium fluidized bed

The effects of gas velocity (0.32 to 0.67 m/s), inlet gas temperature (25 to 100 °C) and the mass ratio of starch to inert particles (0.1 to 0.4) on the drying rate of starch in a 0.083 m-ID × 0.80 m-high inert medium fluidized bed were investigated. The drying mechanism in an inert medium fluidized bed can be classified into adhesion-dispersion, evaporation and disintegration steps. The drying rate increases with the increasing inlet gas temperature and velocity; the rates being about 10 times those reported for an agitated pan dryer. However, the drying rate decreases slightly as the mass ratio of starch to inert particles increases. Also, the drying rate exhibits a maximum at an optimum bed porosity. The drying rate data obtained in an inert medium fluidized bed have been correlated with the relevant dimensionless groups, i.e. Stefan and particle Reynolds numbers based on the theory of isotropic turbulence.     

带浸没管的惰性粒子振动流化床传热特性

采用带浸没加热管的惰性粒子振动流化床对膏状物料干燥进行了实验研究。考察了加料速率、进气温度、进气速度、加热管功率、振动强度等参数对床温和体积传热系数的影响,得出了计算体积传热系数的关联式。结果表明,在流化床中增设振动和浸没加热管装置,能大大强化传热传质,体积传热系数随加料量、振动强度、加热管功率、进风速度的增加而增大,随进气温度的增加而减小。其结果对惰性粒子流化床干燥器的设计和改进具有重要的指导意义。     

洗衣粉悬浮液在惰性粒子流化床中干燥的研究

针对气体分布板开直孔的惰性粒子流化床,开展了洗衣粉悬浮液在床内的干燥性能研究。测定了流化床的床层压降曲线,考察了进料量、进风温度、进风速度及惰性粒子直径对于流化床传热性能的影响,且与气体分布板开斜孔的传热性能进行了初步比较。结果表明,流化床的床层压降主要是由惰性粒子的流化阻力所致;适当增加进料量和进风速度,或减小惰性粒子直径,以及将气体分布板的孔道由直孔改为斜孔,均可提高流化床的传热性能,但过高的进风温度则可能导致传热性能的下降。     

内热式惰性粒子流化床中膏状物料干燥模型

通过对惰性粒子流化床中膏状物料干燥机理的分析,得到了干燥时间及单位面积床层水分汽化量的数学计算式,可对干燥器的性能进行预测。采用带浸没加热管的惰性粒子流化床对膏状钛白物料进行干燥中试研究,采用气流式喷嘴将膏状物料分散成200～400μm的小液滴喷洒在惰性粒子表面进行干燥,探索了适宜的干燥条件,测定和确定了最佳的干燥工艺参数、操作参数和设备参数。结果表明:该干燥工艺能强化床内传热传质,促进高黏性膏糊状物料很好地分散,床层温度分布均匀,干燥器的操作弹性大,热量消耗低,干燥强度高,传热系数可达300W·m-2·K-1以上。     

流化床氛围下多孔物料干燥传热传质的数值模拟

用有限差分法数值求解一个热、质传递耦合模型,理论研究多孔物料流化床干燥过程。方程离散采用全隐格式的控制容积方法,三对角矩阵法（TDMA）用来求解线性方程组。选用球形的苹果丁作为多孔物料。在典型操作条件下,通过分析温度、饱和度和压力的分布侧形,讨论了物料内部的热、质传递机理。在对比条件下,考察了气体入口温度、气速和床面积因子对干燥过程的影响。结果表明：干燥过程受气、固相间的耦合传热传质的影响十分明显,干燥时间随气体入口温度和气速的提高而减少;随床面积因子的增大而增加。     

DRYING OF TOBACCO PARTICLES IN A MOBILISED BED

The drying performance of a novel device capable of mobilising a bed of fibrous materials is evaluated. The drying kinetic of the vegetable product used for this work, cut lamina tobacco particles, was determined from fixed bed experiments. A falling-rate period was observed for the entire drying curve. The results showed that the drying rate is controlled by internal mass transfer mechanism for gas superficial velocities above 0.8 m/ s. The proposed model is based on an effective liquid diffusion coefficient that varies with solids temperature according to an Arrhenius-type relationship. Batch drying experiments were carried out in the mobilised bed apparatus under various conditions of inlet air temperature, humidity and flowrate. Assuming perfect mixing and no internal resistance to heat transfer for the solids, the performance of the mobile bed can be predicted using the proposed internal liquid diffusion model     

脱硅中液固循环流化床清洁传热

考察了铝土矿熟料溶出粗液脱硅加热过程中的结垢行为,采用有机-无机复合材质的惰性固体颗粒研究了循环流化床对脱硅加热过程中硅渣结垢的清除及防止性能.结果表明：硅渣结垢曲线为具有诱导期的渐近式曲线,硅渣结垢机理为结晶结垢和微颗粒沉积结垢混合机理;循环流化床不仅能有效防止硅渣结垢的形成,而且能完全清除已有的硅渣垢层,硅渣结垢的清除速率随操作流速及固体颗粒浓度的增大而增大;惰性固体颗粒的引入不影响硅渣结垢的机理.根据液固流化床的防垢机理建立了结垢模型,其预报值与实验值吻合较好.     

DRYING OF TOBACCO PARTICLES IN A MOBILISED BED

ABSTRACT

The drying performance of a novel device capable of mobilising a bed of fibrous materials is evaluated. The drying kinetic of the vegetable product used for this work, cut lamina tobacco particles, was determined from fixed bed experiments. A falling-rate period was observed for the entire drying curve. The results showed that the drying rate is controlled by internal mass transfer mechanism for gas superficial velocities above 0.8 m/ s. The proposed model is based on an effective liquid diffusion coefficient that varies with solids temperature according to an Arrhenius-type relationship. Batch drying experiments were carried out in the mobilised bed apparatus under various conditions of inlet air temperature, humidity and flowrate. Assuming perfect mixing and no internal resistance to heat transfer for the solids, the performance of the mobile bed can be predicted using the proposed internal liquid diffusion model     

惰性粒子流化床干燥钻井废泥浆实验研究

实验考察了惰性粒子流化床干燥钻井废泥浆,关联了干燥器的体积传热系数表达式,可定量计算进风速度、进风温度、废泥浆体积流量和含水量等参数的影响。结果表明,惰性粒子流化床干燥热效率达55％,体积传热系数可达6kW·m^-3·K^-1,可用于钻井现场柴油机废气干燥钻井废泥浆。激光粒度分析仪测试干燥产物粒度平均值为12／μm,且分布较为集中,其密度为3．2g·cm^-3,可以回用于钻井泥浆的加重材料。浸毒试验表明,干燥产物CODCr值大幅度下降。     

Experimental and numerical analysis of oil shale drying in fluidized bed

The main objective of this work was to experimentally and numerically investigate the Liu Shu River oil shale drying by the means of flue gas in a fluidized bed dryer. Several experiments were performed under different temperatures conditions. The moisture content of oil shale was measured during the experiments. The two-stage drying model was incorporated in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package FLUENT via user-defined functions (UDF) and utilized for simulation of heat and mass transfer of oil shale drying in the fluidized bed dryer. The simulation results for solid moisture content agreed well with experimental data. The effects of the temperature and velocity of flue gas, initial bed height, and the particle size on the drying characteristics were predicted and analyzed. It is shown that the gas temperature and velocity are the important parameters in the whole drying process. The particle size has more obvious influence in the falling drying period than the constant drying period. The temperatures of gas and solid phases were monitored. It is shown that the so-called “near gas distributor zone” is the most effective heat transfer zone, which agrees well with the calculated value. The system quickly reached thermal equilibrium, characterizing a nearly isothermal bed. The developed model provides a very good demonstration to describe the oil shale drying in the fluidized bed dryer, and may provide important information for design, optimization of operation conditions.     

Wärme- und Stoffübertragung in der Wirbelschicht

Heat and mass transfer in fluidized beds . Methods of calculation are presented which enable reasonably accurate prediction of heat and mass transfer coefficients in fluidized beds. Some well established equations already given in the literature could be used for estimating the range of existence of the fluidized bed and for calculating maximum fluidization velocities, bed expansion, and particle-to-fluid heat and mass transfer. However, a new model had to be developed for the wall-to-bed heat transfer from solid surfaces immersed in fluidized beds. This model makes use of some basic ideas adopted from the kinetic theory of gases in order to describe the mechanism of energy transfer through the moving particles. Predictions with this new model are in good agreement with most of the experimental observations, particularly regarding the effects of particle diameter, temperature, pressure, physical properties of gas and particles, and gas velocity.     

惰性粒子流化床中的悬浮液干燥

用惰性粒子流化床干燥器对混凝土外加剂等5种物料进行了干燥实验研究，提出了计算体积传热系数的关联式．实验结果表明，由于惰性粒子的存在，强化了传热传质，体积传热系数可达3000W·m~(-3)·K~(-1)，但是，床层压力降较高．干燥强度（以蒸出水计）可达50～60kg·m~(-3)·h~(-1)，热效率30％～43％，若提高热风进口温度，后两项指标还可提高.     

惰性粒子振动流化床中膏状物料干燥

报道了采用带浸没加热管的惰性粒子振动流化床干燥膏状物料的实验研究结果。考察了加料速率、振动条件、进气温度、进气速度、加热管功率等参数对干燥过程的影响,提出采用体积传热系数来评价干燥器传热性能,并得出了计算体积传热系数的准数关联式。结果表明,在流化床中增设振动和浸没加热管装置,能大大强化传热、传质,干燥器热效率达60%,干燥强度超过300 kg·m^-3·h^-1,体积传热系数可达25 kW·m^-3·K^-1,激光粒度分析仪的测定结果表明产品的粒度分布范围较窄,该流化床干燥可以直接得到平均粒径为0.35 μm、比表面积为5.024 m²·g^-1的粉状产品。     

An extended DEM–CFD model for char combustion in a bubbling fluidized bed combustor of inert sand

This paper proposes a transient three-phase numerical model for the simulation of multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer and combustion in a bubbling fluidized bed of inert sand. The gas phase is treated as a continuum and solved using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach; the solid particles are treated as two discrete phases with different reactivity characteristics and solved on the individual particle scale using an extended discrete element model (DEM). A new char combustion submodel considering sand inhibitory effects is also developed to describe char particle combustion behavior in the fluidized bed. Two conditions, i.e. a single larger graphite particle and a batch of smaller graphite particles, are used to test the prediction capability of the model. The model is validated by comparing the predicted results with the previous measured results and conclusions in the literature in terms of bed hydrodynamics, individual particle temperature, char residence time and concentrations of the products. The effects of bed temperature, oxygen concentration and superficial velocity on char combustion behavior are also examined through model simulation. The results indicate that the proposed model provides a proximal approach to elucidate multiphase flow and combustion mechanisms in fluidized bed combustors.     

Determination of PVC powder drying kinetics at particle scale: Experimental study and modeling

An original experimental method is used to determine drying kinetic at particle scale. The particle scale kinetics was obtained by immersion of a small mass of wet polyvinyl chloride (PVC) particles (cake) in a batch dense fluidized bed containing inert hot particles (glass bead). The results are summarized here and prove clearly that the PVC drying is controlled by a competition between internal and external transfers. The drying kinetic was described by a particle scale model taking into account the convective–diffusive (mass transfer) and the convective–evaporative (heat transfer) phenomena. To validate this model with the experimental data, the experimental fluidized bed dryer is modeled following two different approaches: a perfect stirred reactor model and a 3D numerical simulation using the multiphase flow code NEPTUNE_CFD. The aim of this 3D simulation is to simulate the phenomena occurring, at local scale, in a dense fluidized bed dryer and to show the limitations of the perfect stirred reactor model.     

鼓泡流化床内高灰煤气化过程的颗粒尺度特性研究

基于多相流体质点网格方法(MP-PIC)对高灰煤在三维鼓泡流化床气化过程进行了数值模拟研究。在欧拉-拉格朗日框架下将气相和固相分别视作连续介质和离散相处理。首先,将模拟得到的出口处气体组分结果与实验数据进行对比,实验数据与模拟结果具有良好的一致性。其次,研究了煤颗粒在气化炉内的温度、传热系数、速度和停留时间,从颗粒尺度揭示了鼓泡流化床气化炉内的颗粒分布特性和气固流动特征。结果表明:在气化炉入口附近煤颗粒与床层温差最大,传热系数最大;由于流化床内强非线性的气固流动,床中煤温度和传热系数的空间分布不均匀;煤颗粒和床料的瞬时速度具有稳定的波动幅度,其中垂直方向速度波动最明显,且煤颗粒的瞬时速度比床料的瞬时速度略大;由于颗粒间的剧烈碰撞,延长了煤颗粒停留时间。此外,对鼓泡流化床中煤气化过程颗粒尺度的研究,有助于深入了解固体颗粒的流动行为以及气固相相互作用特性,对鼓泡流化床反应器的设计优化具有重要意义。     

Modelling of batch fluidised bed drying of pharmaceutical granules

This paper presents a mathematical model based on a three-phase theory, which is used to describe the mass and heat transfer between the gas and solids phases in a batch fluidised bed dryer. In the model, it is assumed that the dilute phase (i.e., bubble) is plug flow while the interstitial gas and the solid particles are considered as being perfectly mixed. The thermal conductivity of wet particles is modelled using a serial and parallel circuit. The moisture diffusion in wet particles was simulated using a numerical finite volume method. Applying a simplified lumped model to a single solid particle, the heat and mass transfer between the interstitial gas and solid phase is taken into account during the whole drying process as three drying rate periods: warming-up, constant rate and falling-rate. The effects of the process parameters, such as particle size, gas velocity, inlet gas temperature and relative humidity, on the moisture content of solids in the bed have been studied by numerical computation using this model. The results are in good agreement with experimental data of heat and mass transfer in fluidised bed dryers. The model will be employed for online simulation of a fluidised bed dryer and for online control.     

Convective Heat and Mass Transfer Modeling in Gas‐Fluidized Beds

This review examines selected mechanistic and empirical models reported in the literature to predict convective heat and mass transfer coefficients in gas‐fluidized beds. The role of hydrodynamics in heat and mass transfer is briefly outlined before embarking on the modeling approaches. Both bed to wall and interphase heat transfer, are considered. In bed to wall heat transfer, the main focus of the review is the modeling of particle convective components, based on surface renewal. The concepts of transient and local heat transfer models are also discussed briefly. In the case of mass transfer, only interphase transfer is considered. Emphasis is placed on models based on combustion where mass transfer is seen to occur from a few active particles contained in a fluidized bed of inert particles.     

流化床冷凝模式操作与乙烯聚合过程的研究 Ⅰ露点提高组分的选择及其对聚合体系热物性的影响

对气固流化床反应器乙烯聚合反应体系中引入易冷凝惰性介质以提高反应器的撤热能力的冷凝模式操作过程进行了模拟分析。通过选用合适的热力学模型，模拟计算了不同种类的冷凝介质，不同组成分率对聚合体系物性的影响。还提出了流化床冷凝模式在乙烯聚合过程中可能出现的三种反应器运行状态。     

离心流化床干燥过程中传热传质的数值模拟

通过对典型的多孔湿物料在离心流化床中干燥过程的理论分析和实验研究 ,首次将含湿多孔介质传热传质过程和物料与气流之间的外部传递过程相耦合 ,导出了离心流化床的理论模型和控制方程组 ,对于离心流化床中湿物料的干燥过程引进了数值模拟 ,结果表明增加气体表观流速、控制入口气体的温度和相对湿度以及加大床体转速均对干燥有不同的影响