Essentials of Fluidization Technology

ISBN-13: 9783527340644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 632 str.

John R. Grace;Xiaotao Bi;Naoko Ellis

Opis

A concise and clear introduction to the basics of fluidization, with a view to its applications in the process and energy industries.

Spis treści

1 Introduction, History and ApplicationsJohn R. Grace2 Properties, minimum fluidization and Geldart groupsJohn R. Grace3 Liquid fluidizationRenzo Di Felice and Alberto Di Renzo4 Gas fluidization flow regimesXiaotao Bi5 Experimental investigation of fluidized bed systemsNaoko Ellis6 Computational fluid dynamics and its application to fluidizationTingwen Li and Yupeng Xu7 Hydrodynamics of bubbling fluidizationJohn Grace8 Slug flowJohn Grace9 Turbulent fluidizationXiaotao Bi10 Entrainment from bubbling and turbulent bedsFarzam Fotovat11 Standpipes and return systems, separation devices and feedersTed M. Knowlton and S.B. Reddy Karri12 Circulating fluidized bedsChengxiu Wang and Jesse Zhu13 Operating challengesPoupak Mehrani and Andrew Sowinski14 Heat and mass transferDening Eric Jia15 Catalytic fluidized-bed reactorsAndrés Mahecha-Botero16 Fluidized beds for gas-solid reactionsJaber Shabanian and Jamal Chaouki17 Scale-up of fluidized bedsNaoko Ellis and Andrés Mahecha-Botero18 Baffles and aids to fluidizationYongmin Zhang19 Jets in fluidized bedsCedric Briens and Jennifer McMillan20 Downer reactorsChangning Wu and Yi Cheng21 Spouted (and spout-fluid) bedsNorman Epstein22 Three-phase (gas-liquid-solid) fluidizationDominic Pjonek, Adam Donaldson and Arturo Macchi

O autorze

John Grace is an Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), where he has served since 1979. Prior to that he was a faculty member at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and completed a PhD on fluidization at Cambridge University. He has published more than 590 papers, chapters and books, most of them related to the subject of the proposed book. He has chaired a number of conferences, consulted for a number of companies, and won a number of awards and honours such as the International Fluidization Award of Achievement from the Engineering Foundation, Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems of the AIChE, and the Particle Technology Forum Award of the AIChE.Xiaotao (Tony) Bi completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) in 1994, then worked in industry and returned to UBC in 1997 where he rose to the rank of Full Professor. He has published more than 300 papers and has supervised dozens of graduate students, mostly related to fluidization and associated multiphase systems. His research covers many areas including hydrodynamics, flow patterns and flow regimes, heat transfer, mass transfer, reactor performance testing, modeling and simulation, scaling and scale-up, commercial reactor trouble-shooting etc. covering gas-solids, liquid-solids, gas-liquid-solids bubbling, turbulent and circulating fluidized beds. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a recent winner of the AIChE Lectureship Award in Fluidization.Naoko Ellis completed a PhD on fluidization at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) in 2003. As a faculty member at UBC (recently promoted to Full Professor and currently serving as Associate head for Graduate Programs), she has been actively engaged in research and supervision of graduate students on fluidization, chemical looping, biomass utilization, bio-oil upgrading, biochar, biodiesel and sustainability, publishing in each of these areas. With Professors Grace and Bi, she taught a recent graduate course on fluidization.