Hydrodynamic characteristics of three-phase fluidized beds [electronic resource].
Published
Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1978. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
The hydrodynamics of three-phase (gas-liquid-solid) fluidized beds has been studied in two columns of 7.62 and 15.2 cm in dia. The minimum gas and liquid velocities necessary to fluidize a bed were determined as a function of the particle size and density and the liquid viscosity; no effect of the initial bed height or column diameter was found. An electroconductivity technique was used to measure local concentrations of solid, liquid, and gas in the fluidized bed; these profiles were fitted using the error function. Overall solid holdup data were combined with over 1350 points from the literature to yield a dimensional correlation involving the physical parameters of the systems studied.