Fluidized bed drying of Loy Yang brown coal with variation of temperature, relative humidity, fluidization velocity and formulation of its drying rate

Fuel ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 415-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun-Seok Kim ◽  
Yohsuke Matsushita ◽  
Motohira Oomori ◽  
Tatsuro Harada ◽  
Jin Miyawaki ◽  
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Author(s):  
Rakesh Verma ◽  
Bharat Raj Singh

Rice is used as a staple food by more than 60 percent of world population. The method used for Cooking of rice for eating purpose is most common and popular. Rice starch is used in making ice cream, custard powder, puddings, gel, distillation of potable alcohol, etc. It is used in confectionery products like bread, snacks, cookies and biscuits. The defatted bran is also used as cattle feed, organic fertilizer (compost), and medicinal purpose and in wax making. Rice is used as animal feed, fuel, mushroom bed, for mulching in horticultural crops and in preparation of paper and compost. Rice yields have been increasing since the 1960s, but since the 1990s, growth in rice production has been slower than population growth. Indeed, it is anticipated that rice production will need to increase by 30% by 2025 in order to sustain those who need it for sustenance. In the present work fluidized bed drying method used for safe storage of rice and analysis of rice conditions and we find that inlet air temperature has the most important effect on the drying rate of material, increasing the inlet air temperature increases the drying rate of the material. Inlet material flow rate has the most important effect on thermal efficiency. Increasing the inlet material flow rate increases the efficiency but decreases the drying rate. At lower flow rate of material, efficiency is low.


2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Khanali ◽  
Shahin Rafiee

Abstract The hydrodynamics, kinetics as well as energy and exergy analyses of fluidized bed drying of rough rice under various experimental conditions were investigated. Drying experiments were conducted at drying air temperatures of 55, 60, and 70°C, superficial fluidization velocities of 2.3, 2.5, and 2.8 m/s, solid holdups of 0.66 and 1.32 kg, and rough rice initial moisture content of 0.25 d.b. Various popular drying models were used to fit the drying data. It was found that the fluidized bed hydrodynamics of the rough rice was uniform and stable. The drying rate was found to increase with increase in drying air temperature and superficial fluidization velocity, while decreased with increase in solid holdup. Statistical analyses showed that the Midilli et al. model was the best model in describing fluidized bed drying characteristics of the rough rice. The results showed that the values of energy efficiency were higher than the corresponding values of exergy efficiency during the entire drying process. Furthermore, at initial stage of drying, the energy and exergy efficiencies were higher than those at the end of drying. It was also found that both the energy and the exergy efficiencies increased with increasing drying air temperature and solid holdup, whereas decreased with the increase in superficial fluidization velocity.


2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Skopec ◽  
Jan Hrdlička ◽  
Jan Opatřil ◽  
Jiří Štefanica

This paper presents experimental results of NO<sub>x</sub> emission measurements for combustion of two kinds of coal in a bubbling fluidized bed combustor. The tested fuels were Czech brown coal (CBC) and German young brown coal (GYC). These fuels have different nitrogen contents. The experiments were performed in the pilot scale BFB experimental unit with power output of 500 kW. The influence of several parameters on NO<sub>x</sub> formation are investigated in this paper. The parameters studied here include the effect of the nitrogen content in the fuel, the effect of the oxygen concentration in the bed, the effect of bed temperature, the effect of air staging, and the effect of fluidization velocity. Significantly different behaviour of the fuels was found. Although GYC has a lower nitrogen content than CBC, it is more reactive and produces higher NO<sub>x</sub> emissions. The biggest dependence of NO<sub>x</sub> production for CBC was found for the effects of air staging and fluidization velocity. As the fluidization velocity increases and the amount of secondary air decreases, there is an increase in NOx emissions. The oxygen concentration in the bed has the strongest effect on the NO<sub>x</sub> production of GYCs. With increasing oxygen concentration, the production of NO<sub>x</sub> also increases. On the basis of the NO<sub>x</sub> measurements, the N-NO conversion factor was calculated and the effect of the operating parameters on this conversion factor was investigated.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-307
Author(s):  
K. Raveendran ◽  
W.A.R. Jayarathna ◽  
A.D.U.S. Amarasinghe ◽  
W.S. Botheju

Fermented tea particles (dhool) are a polydisperse system subject to shrinkage during fluidized bed drying, which is an important process in the production of orthodox broken type tea. The effect of shrinkage on the physical properties and the minimum fluidization velocity were studied. Five different moisture contents of dhool particles were chosen in the range of 3-106 mass% (dry basis) and the changes in particle diameters and particle densities were measured. For each of the moisture contents, the minimum fluidization velocity was found for three different bed loadings using ambient air at 25?C in a fluidized bed with an area of 351?345 mm2. Since the conventional industrial type fluidized bed dryers operate at 124?C, the new correlations among the Archimedes number, Reynolds number at minimum fluidization and dimensionless moisture content were developed using air properties at 124?C. The results were validated for orthodox broken type tea, drying at 124?C, in a fluidized bed dryer with bed loadings in the range of 44.5 to 50.5 kg/m2. The predicted fluidization velocity was found to be in good agreement with the experimental data and the difference was below 10% for most cases.


2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 944-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aziz ◽  
Yasuki Kansha ◽  
Atsushi Tsutsumi

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