Dimensionless groups for practicable similarity of circulating fluidised beds

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 5369-5376

  Van Der Meer, E H ^a   Thorpe, R B ^a   Davidson, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circulating fluidised beds; Circulating fluidised combustors; Dimensionless numbers; Fluidisation; Scaling

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC CRACKING; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTORS; HYDRODYNAMICS;

CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BEDS (CFB);

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

CIRCULATION; FLUIDIZED BED; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; SCALING;

EID: 0033231980     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(99)00270-5     Document Type: Article

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