AGGLOMERATION BEHAVIOR IN A BUBBLING FLUIDIZED BED AT HIGH TEMPERATURE

Minimum fluidization velocity and agglomeration behavior were investigated at high temperature in an 80?×?30?mm two-dimensional quartz fluidized bed and in an 82?mm i.d. circular fluidized bed. Bed materials tested were two sizes of glass beads as well as three sizes of fluidized bed combustor (FBC) ash. The minimum fluidization velocity decreased with increasing bed temperature, whereas the minimum sintering fluidization velocity increased with the bed temperature. The sintering of glass beads belongs to visco plastic sintering, the first type. FBC ash agglomerate has higher amounts of SiO₂, Al₂O₃, Na₂O, K₂O, and SiO₂ than in the original ash, indicating that low melting eutectics were formed and that the liquid phase in a silicate system was formed. The agglomeration of FBC ash belongs to the second type, an excessive quantity of liquid being formed by melting or chemical reaction.     

FCC细颗粒湍流流化床流体力学性能研究

ＦＣＣ细颗粒湍流流化床流体力学性能研究李俊，张蕴璧，闫遂宁（西安石油学院，西安７１００６１）（西北大学）（洛阳石化公司）关键词：流化床，湍流，气泡，空隙率１前言湍流流化床有着广泛的工业背景。湍流流化床反应器存在着物质空间分布的不均匀现象，这种分布对湍...     

多孔挡板流化床气泡行为的研究

本文在内径为(?)120mm 的多孔挡板流化床中,用光导纤维法和电容法测定了 Al(OH)_3粉、铜粉和 FCC 三种不同物料体系的气泡频率和气泡速度,对操作条件和挡板参数对气泡行为的影响作了研究和分析。结果表明,在一定的气速下,挡板的开孔率、孔径和板间距(级间高径比小于3)对气泡频率和气泡速度的影响较小;对属 B 类的 Al(OH)_3粉和铜粉物料,气速对气泡频率的影响可以忽略,而对属 A 类的 FCC 物料,气泡频率随气速的增大而增大。     

BUBBLE MOTION IN A THREE-PHASE LIQUID FLUIDIZED BED

This paper presents results for the rise velocities of air bubbles in liquids and liquid-solid fluidized beds. The bubble sizes ranged from approximately 0.03 to 0.45 cm radius. Tap water and distilled water were used as the fluidizing liquids. The solid phase consisted of low density alginate gel beads of mean radius 0.04 cm. The gel beads were translucent which permitted observation of bubbles inside the bed even at large solids volume fractions. Experiments were conducted for solids volume fractions ranging from 15% to 52% and in clear liquids. The goal of the experiments was to determine rise velocities of bubbles and to develop and evaluate correlations of bubble rise velocity based on bubble size, solids volume fraction and liquid properties. It was determined that, for moderate solids fractions (ranging from 28% to 45% solids), a semi-empirical correlation that treated the fluidized bed as a pure liquid with a higher viscosity than the liquid phase could be used to represent the data. The Thomas effective viscosity model was used to predict the viscosity. Provided that one restricts attention to a water fluidized bed, a second empirical correlation can be used to represent the data over a broader range of solids fractions.     

STOCHASTIC BEHAVIOR OF FLUIDIZED PARTICLES IN A LIQUID-SOLID FLUIDIZED BED

In a liquid-solid fluidized bed, the apparently irregular or stochastic behavior of particles gives rise to various flow regimes depending on parameters such as the particle size, liquid flow rate, static bed height and axial position in the bed. It is highly plausible that this irregular behavior manifests itself as pressure fluctuations; thus, the effects of these parameters on the particle behavior or the particle flow regime were investigated through measurement and spectral analysis of the pressure fluctuations. The results indicate that the amplitude of pressure fluctuations exhibits a maximum and that the decay constant in the autocorrelation function attains its minimum at the intermediate liquid flow rate where the particle flow regime undergoes transition from the cluster circulation to the individual quasi random motion. The model composed of the periodic and stochastic components of pressure fluctuations, is in good accord with the experimental results in terms of both the autocorrelation and power spectral density functions.     

MODELING OF THE TRANSIENT AND STEADY STATE OPERATION OF A FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR WITH ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF TEMPERATURE

This paper concerns modeling of the transient and the steady state operation of a fluidized bed reactor for the catalytic ammoxidation of propylene to acrylonitrile. To maintain constant the temperature of the reaction in order to facilitate the phenomenological study as well as to avoid risks of destruction of the catalyst, a self tuning P.I.D. controller has been used. The controller derived from a discrete P.I.D. regulator is based on pole assignment. It uses a recursive parameter estimator based on the least square method. The reactor has been interfaced with an Apple II micro-computer. The results obtained illustrates the inherent capability of self adaptive control to adapt the change of the environment where conventional control fails

Modeling of the reactor is based on the Kato and Wen bubble assemblage model corrected by including the wake of the bubbles with their clouds, as proposed hy Stergiou. This modified model gives good predictions of the operation of the reactor for steady as well as transient operation.     

高温流化床结焦特性

分析了近年来高温流化床结焦研究的状况,总结了流化床结焦现象及其影响因素、流化床结焦时的最小流化速度及影响因素、流化床结焦机理,并分析了研究中存在的问题,探讨了高温流化床结焦特性研究的方向。     

A SIMPLE METHOD FOR STUDYING THE KINETICS OF GAS-SOLID REACTIONS IN A FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR

A methodology for studying the kinetics of gas-solid reactions in a fluidized bed reactor is presented. This procedure is based on the analysis of the response of the system (flue gases) when batches of solids of different weight are added to the reactor. The method has been applied to the study of limestone particle calcination. The calcination rate constants obtained are in good agreement with those found in the literature. The method offers the advantage of simplicity and avoids the use of model assumptions or empirical correlations.     

流化床连续聚合反应器出料状态分析

研究了粗颗粒树脂加压流态化时气固混和物自由出料过程的物理模型，建立了出料气含率与流化床结构参数、操作条件之间的关系。计算表明出料气含率的理论预测值和测量值一致。运用此结论进一步计算了流化床乙烯聚合反应生产聚乙烯工业过程中乙烯的原料单耗值，为工业生产指标的分析计算提供了理论依据     

EFFECT OF DISTRIBUTOR ON BUBBLE SIZE IN A CYLINDRICAL FLUIDIZED BED AT AN ELEVATED TEMPERATURE†

The effects of temperature and distributor on bubble diameter were investigated using a cylindrical fluidized bed of 147 mm in diameter. Three perforated distributors having different holes in diameter and the same ratio of holes to bed area were used. Eruption diameters of bubbles were measured using a high speed video-camera system under the following conditions: bed temperature = 300 and 600 K, bed particles = spherical glass beads of 272 μm in average size, excess gas velocity = 1-4 cm/s, and static bed height equals; 10-42 cm. The bubble diameter at 600 K was larger than that at 300 K. The difference became smaller with increasing the static bed height and with increasing the excess gas velocity. The distributor with larger holes gave larger bubbles. The effect of hole diameter of the distributor on the bubble diameter became insignificant with increasing the static bed height and with increasing the excess gas velocity.     

EFFECT OF STATIC LIQUID HEIGHT ON GAS-LIQUID MASS TRANSFER IN A DRAFT-TUBE BUBBLE COLUMN AND THREE-PHASE FLUIDIZED BED

Experiments are performed under batch-liquid operating conditions to investigate the effect of static liquid height on the gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient (K_La) in a draft-tube bubble column (DTBC) and a draft-tube three-phase fluidized bed (DTFB). In addition, the effects of column diameter, gas-distributor, and draft-tube diameter are studied. The results indicate that for a given system with a porous plate gas-distributor at low superficial gas velocities (<70 m/hr), increasing static liquid height decreases K_La. At high gas velocities, K_La is independent of the static liquid height. For systems with a perforated gas-distributor, there is no effect of static liquid height on K_La. The formation of small dispersed bubbles at low gas velocities in the porous plate distributor system accounts for the considerably high K_La values and the observed effect of liquid height. On the other hand, the formation of large spherical-cap bubbles and the bubble coalescence at high gas velocities reduce the performance of the porous plate distributor system to that of the perforated one.     

气-固流化床的气泡参数测定——直射式光纤探头在流化床研究中的应用

在鼓泡域中,从直射式光纤探头在二维床的测试与图像分析的结果得到气泡的平均直径与平均刺穿长度的关系为:d_b=1.6E[l]气泡的球形度为0.96。通过反射式和直射式光纤探头信号的比较表明,直射式探头的信号便于处理,并可用来测定气泡内的粒子含量。直射式光纤探头在二维床和三维床的测定结果对比表明,两种塔内的气泡行为规律一致但有明显的差异。     

EFFECT OF HIGH VOIDAGE ON MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT IN A FLUIDIZED BED

Experiments were carried out to determine the gas-solid mass transfer coefficient for the air-naphthalene system under fast-fluidized conditions. The data were obtained under conditions of high voidage (as high as 98%) and high gas velocities (0·5 m/s-2·2 m/s). The results indicate that the correlation for the mass-transfer coefficient in a gas-solid fluidized bed under low voidage conditions established by previous investigators can be extended to the fast fluidization regime. Significantly lower mass transfer coefficients were, however, obtained under high voidage compared to low voidage conditions.     

CYCLIC OPERATION OF A FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR FOR DECOMPOSING CALCIUM SULFATE

Calcium sulfate can be decomposed at a high temperature (e.g., 1100°C) in the presence of reducing agents such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen. However, conditions must be carefully controlled to avoid over-reduction and the formation of calcium sulfide. The problem of over-reduction can be avoided by using a fluidized bed reactor in which the gas phase is alternated in a periodic manner between reducing conditions and oxidizing conditions. This method was demonstrated with a bench-scale fluidized bed reactor which was fed continuously with granulated waste gypsum and a mixture of air and natural gas. The ratio of air to natural gas was varied in a periodic manner to provide alternating reducing and oxidizing conditions. Calcium sulfate was largely converted into the desired products while producing very little calcium sulfide. Operating performance was found to depend on cycle time, air to fuel ratio, temperature, and feed rate.     

EFFECT OF DISTRIBUTOR ON BUBBLE SIZE AND BUBBLE RISE VELOCITY IN THE SLUGGING REGIME OF A SEMI-CYLINDRICAL GAS-SOLID FLUIDIZED BED†

A semi-cylindrical fluidized bed of 15 cm internal diameter, equipped with a transparent flat glass plate for the front wall, was employed to visually observe bubbles in the bubbling to slugging transition regime and in the slugging regime. Five kinds of perforated distributors were used to investigate the effect of distributor type on the bubble size and the bubble rise velocity. The average bubble size was not affected by distributor type in these flow regimes, and could be predicted by Darton et al's correlation (1974)of hole number 22. In other words, this comes from the inapplicability of the correlation to the slugging regime. The bubble rise velocity agreed well with Allahwala et al's correlation (1979) and was not affected by the type of distributor.     

用摄影—图像分析法对三相流化床中气泡行为的研究

本文利用35mm 普通摄影机拍摄了300×20×2000mm 的二维床中多气泡的运动行为,并用图像分析仪对摄影胶片进行了分析处理,得到了各个气泡大小、运动速度及所处座标位置。并对大量气泡运动特性进行了统计研究。结果表明采用这一方法能够准确地定量描述流化床中气泡群运动的整体特性,为深入研究、描述气泡的运动规律打下了基础。     

LIQUID-SOLID MASS TRANSFER IN A THREE PHASE DRAFT TUBE FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR

Liquid-solid mass transfer coefficients in a three phase draft tube fluidized bed reactor have been measured using spherical ion exchange particles. The particle diameters ranged from 655 to 1119μm and solids volume fractions of approximately 5 and 10% were employed in water at 28°C. The experimental data can be successfully correlated using a Reynolds number derived using Kolmogoroffs theory of isotropic turbulence, although it is doubtful whether isotropic turbulence actually prevails in the fluidized bed over the range of conditions employed. Comparison with correlations determined for bubble columns and gas-liquid fluidized beds is performed. A model which considers the draft tube reactor as comprising two distinct fluid mechanical regions is developed to explain the apparently lower values of mass transfer coefficients obtained in a draft tube as opposed to conventional fluidized bed reactor.     

STUDIES OF STEAM DRYING IN A FLUIDIZED BED

In general, drying processes are described by the quantity of air humidity of the exiting gases. This approach is not possible however by the drying medium of water in steam drying, since the air humidity naturally possesses a constant value of 100%. This paper presents a model which represents the drying processes on the basis of the observation of temperature profiles of the material and energetic balancing of all components involved as well as the wall of the apparatus. The modeling differentiates three intervals: the condensation phase, the 1st drying period and the 2nd drying period. In addition, a validation of the model on the basis of experiments in an experimental plant DN100 belonging to the university is dealt with. The satisfying concurrence of the theoretical and practical results shows that, with the help of the theoretical model, discontinuous steam drying processes can be theoretically described with sufficient accuracy.     

HEAT TRANSFER BETWEEN HORIZONTAL TUBES AND FREEBOARD REGION OF A LOW-RANK COAL FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTOR

Experiments are conducted to measure the heat transfer rates to air-cooled horizontal tubes of diameter 38.1mm in the freeboard region of a pilot-scale fluidized-bed combustor burning North Dakota lignite- Silica sand with diameter ranging from 883 to 973 μim is used as bed material. The tests are carried out without limestone addition and ash recycle, at average bed temperatures ranging from 698 to 1117K, freeboard temperatures of 700 to 1139 K and superficial velocities of 1.74 to 1.86 m/s. Among the existing correlations, those proposed by George and Grace (1982), and Byam et al. (1981) are found to predict the experimental results quite well and their root-mean-square deviations are found to be 15.8 and 18.4 percent respectively. @KEYWORDS: Heat transfer, Fluidized bed Coal combustor