Mass transfer of a single bubble in a minimally fluidized granular bed

The transfer of a gas admixture through the boundary of a cloud of closed circulation of gas is examined with a view to both molecular and convective dispersion.Notation a particle radius - c concentration of the admixture - D, D _c tensors of effective diffusion coefficients and of coefficients of convective dispersion, respectively - D parameter in (14) - D₀, D_m coefficients of molecular diffusion, respectively not taking and taking compressibility into account - F, f functions in (17) and (18), respectively - f fraction of the volume of the sphere with radius R_B occupied by the wake of the bubble - g acceleration of gravity - K mass-transfer coefficient determined in (22) - k coefficient in (7) - L coefficient in (22) - p, s functions determined in (13) - Q, q flow of admixture for the entire bubble and local flow, respectively - r_B, R_c radii of bubble and of cloud of closed circulation, respectively - r radial coordinate - U lift velocity of the bubble - u=v-w; u₀=u_*/u_* minimum velocity of fluidization - V volume of bubble - v, w mean gas velocities in the gaps between particles and of the particles, respectively - parameter determined in (8) - , parameters from (14) - porosity of the dense phase and of the cloud - polar angle - independent variable introduced in (12) - p = 1 - flow function Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 323–333, August, 1980.