The near wall dense ring in a large-scale down-flow circulating fluidized bed

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 161-167

  Zhang, Minghui ^a   Qian, Zhen ^a   Yu , Hao ^a   Wei, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CFB downer; Dense ring; Large scale; Solids fraction distribution

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DENSITY (OPTICAL); SOLIDS;

CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BEDS (CFB);

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

CIRCULATION; FLUIDIZED BED;

EID: 0037447602     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-8947(02)00191-2     Document Type: Article

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