Nonintrusive particle motion studies in the near-wall region of a pilot-scale circulating fluidized bed

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 5582-5592

  Pandey, Preetanshu ^a   Turton, Richard ^a   Yue, Paul ^b   Shadle, Lawrence ^b  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FLUIDIZED BEDS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PARTICLE DENSITY; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITY;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

CIRCULATION; FLUIDIZED BED; PARTICLE FLOW; VELOCIMETRY;

ARTICLE; CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED; DENSITY; FLOW KINETICS; FLUIDIZED BED; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; PARTICLE DENSITY; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE PARTITIONING; SOLID; SOLID GAS LOAD RATIO;

EID: 4344717691     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0307737     Document Type: Article

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