Effect of particle size and interparticle force on the fluidization behavior of gas-fluidized beds
J M Valverde1, A Castellanos, P Mills
1Departamento de Electronica y Electromagnetismo, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.
Abstract:
Gas-fluidized powders of fine particles display a fluidlike regime in which the bed does not have a yield strength, it expands uniformly as the gas velocity is increased and macroscopic bubbles are absent. In this paper we test the extension of this fluidlike regime as a function of particle size and interparticle attractive force. Our results show that for sufficiently large particles, bubbling initiates just after the solidlike fluidized regime as it is obtained experimentally by other workers. A scaling behavior of the solid-phase pressure in the fluidlike regime and a predictive criterion for the onset of macroscopic bubbling are analyzed in the light of these results.
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