scholarly journals Experimental Investigation of Radial Gas Dispersion Coefficients in a Fluidized Bed

10.14311/1568 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Štefanica ◽  
Jan Hrdlička
Keyword(s):  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Combustion Efficiency ◽  
Tracer Gas ◽  
Cold Model ◽  
Nox Formation ◽  
Gas Dispersion ◽  
Bed Height ◽  
Bubbling Fluidized Bed ◽  
Bed Material

In a fluidized bed boiler, the combustion efficiency, the NOX formation rate, flue gas desulphurization and fluidized bed heat transfer are all ruled by the gas distribution. In this investigation, the tracer gas method is used for evaluating the radial gas dispersion coefficient. CO2 is used as a tracer gas, and the experiment is carried out in a bubbling fluidized bed cold model. Ceramic balls are used as the bed material. The effect of gas velocity, radial position and bed height is investigated.

scholarly journals Gas Dispersion and Bubble-to-Emulsion Phase Mass Exchange in a Gas-Solid Bubbling Fluidized Bed: A Computational and Experimental Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhaneshwar J. Patil ◽  
Martin van Sint Annaland ◽  
J.A.M. Kuipers
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Mass Exchange ◽  
Concentration Profiles ◽  
Steady State Concentration ◽  
Tracer Gas ◽  
Gas Dispersion ◽  
Bubbling Fluidized Bed ◽  
State Concentration

Knowledge of gas dispersion and mass exchange between the bubble and the emulsion phases is essential for a correct prediction of the performance of fluidized beds, particularly when catalytic reactions take place. Test cases of single rising bubble and a bubbling fluidized bed operated with a jet without a chemical reaction were studied in order to obtain fundamental insights in the prevailing mass transfer phenomena. Numerical simulations were carried out to predict the dispersion of tracer gas using a two-fluid model based on Kinetic Theory of Granular Flow (KTGF). The simulations of a single-bubble rising through an incipiently fluidized bed revealed that the assumptions often made in phenomenological models in the derivation of correlations for the mass transfer coefficient, mainly that the bubble diameter remains constant and that the tracer concentration is uniform in the bubble, are not valid. The predicted bubble-to-emulsion phase mass transfer coefficient showed good agreement with the estimated values from the literature correlations assuming additive convection-diffusion transport for different bubble sizes and different particle sizes, indicating the importance of the convective distribution even for relatively small particles. Experiments were carried out to measure the steady state concentration profiles of a tracer gas in a pseudo two-dimensional bubbling fluidized bed operated with a jet. The simulated steady state concentration profiles of the tracer gas agreed well the experimental measurements. The radial convection of the gas is significantly influenced by the bubble ‘throughflow’ and therefore depends upon the particle and bubble size. The experimental comparison of theoretical results was extended to study the influence of the jet velocity and the particle diameter on the radial dispersion of the tracer gas in the bed.

scholarly journals Elutriation of fines from binary particle mixtures in bubbling fluidized bed cold model

2017 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 340-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmail R. Monazam ◽  
Ronald W. Breault ◽  
Justin Weber ◽  
Ky Layfield
Keyword(s):  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Cold Model ◽  
Bubbling Fluidized Bed

Effect of Static Bed Height on the Combustion of Rice Husk in a Fluidized Bed Combustor

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rozainee ◽  
S. P. Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Residence Time ◽  
Rice Husk ◽  
Bubble Formation ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Transfer Rates ◽  
Bed Height ◽  
Bed Temperature ◽  
Bed Material

The combustion process is largely controlled by temperature, turbulence and residence time. When the temperature is sufficiently high so that the reaction is no longer kinetically-controlled, turbulence and residence time play a significant role. The reaction is thus diffusion-controlled. During the combustion of rice husk in a fluidized bed, the turbulence is largely governed by the mixing behavior in the inert sand bed, which in turn is governed by the bubble formation characteristics. Further, the residence time among the reactants (air and rice husk) and the heat source is also dependent on the turbulence in the bed. When all other parameters are held constant, the bubble phenomena vary according to the expanded bed height corresponding to a given static bed height. For high heat and mass transfer rates, small slowly rising bubbles are desired. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of static bed height on the quality of ash during the combustion of rice husk. The degree of rice husk burning in the bed could be deduced from the bed temperature as a higher bed temperature indicated that a higher portion of the rice husk feed is being burnt in the bed. Moreover, the particle size of the resulting ash is also able to give indication of the degree of rice husk burning in the bed as the turbulence arising from the bubbling action of the bed material is known to break down the char skeleton of the rice husk, thereby, resulting in ash with finer size. From this study, the static bed height of 0.5 DC was found to give the lowest residual carbon content in the ash (1.9 wt%) and the highest bed temperature (670°C) among the other range of static bed heights investigated.

Minimum Air Fluidization Velocity Study of Specific 2-D Bubbling Fluidized Bed Reactor

2014 ◽  
Vol 699 ◽  
pp. 660-665
Author(s):  
M. Fadhil ◽  
M.S. Aris ◽  
A.H. Abbas ◽  
A.B.A. Ibrahim ◽  
N. Aniza
Keyword(s):  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Numerical Approach ◽  
Combustion Efficiency ◽  
Fluidized Bed Combustion ◽  
Fluidization Velocity ◽  
Bubbling Fluidized Bed ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Bed Expansion

Research on the thermodynamic behavior of sand beds was carried out using a commercial computational dynamic package. The work involved simulating, with the use of the Ergun equation, the air flow through a two-dimensional bubbling bed reactor to predict the bed character whilst considering the major effective function (particle size, particle density, bed height and reactor width). The Minimum Fluidization Velocity (Umf) values were then calculated before the optimum value of Umfneeded to ensure a workable Bubbling Fluidize Bed Combustor (BFBC) system. The effects of using different Umfvalues on the flow behavior were also investigated using the numerical approach at different times. The results from these investigations indicate that the bubbling region in the fluidized bed combustion can be correlated to the sand bed expansion with minimum errors and assist in enhancing the combustion efficiency by supplying the required volume of oxygen into the system.

Bed Material Agglomeration Behavior in a Bubbling Fluidized Bed (BFB) at High Temperatures using KCl and K2SO4 as Simulated Molten Ash

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Ghiasi ◽  
Alejandro Montes ◽  
Fatemeh Ferdosian ◽  
Honghi Tran ◽  
Chunbao (Charles) Xu
Keyword(s):  
Melting Point ◽  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Sharp Decrease ◽  
Differential Pressure ◽  
Silica Sand ◽  
Molar Ratio ◽  
Biomass Ash ◽  
Bubbling Fluidized Bed ◽  
Sand Particles ◽  
Bed Material

Abstract The agglomeration of bed material is one of the most serious problems in combustion of biomass in fluidized-bed boilers, due to the presence of some inorganic alkali elements such as K and Na in the biomass ash, which form low-melting-point alkali compounds during the process. In this study, agglomeration behaviors of bed materials (silica sand particles) were investigated in a bench-scale bubbling fluidized-bed reactor operating at 800 °C using simulated biomass ash components: KCl, K2SO4, and a mixture of KCl and K2SO4 at eutectic composition (molar ratio K2SO4/(KCl+ K2SO4)=0.26). The signals of temperature and differential pressure across the bed were monitored while heating up the fluidized bed of silica sand particles premixed with various amounts of KCl, and the KCl-K2SO4 mixture in bubbling bed regime. A sharp decrease in temperature and differential pressure was observed around 750 °C and 690 °C for 0.4–0.6 wt% loading of the low melting-point KCl and KCl-K2SO4 mixture, respectively, suggesting the formation of bed material agglomeration and even de-fluidization of the bed. Moreover, this work demonstrated the effectiveness of kaolin and aluminum sulfate to minimize agglomeration. The results indicated that these additives could successfully prevent the formation of agglomerates by forming compounds with high melting points.

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