Axial segregation in bubbling gas-fluidized beds with Gaussian and lognormal distributions of Geldart Group B particles

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3049-3061

  Chew, Jia Wei ^a   Wolz, Jeffrey R ^a   Hrenya, Christine M ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubbling gas fluidized bed; Continuous particle size distribution (Gaussian, lognormal); Fluidization; Polydisperse; Segregation

Indexed keywords

AXIAL CONCENTRATION PROFILES; AXIAL SEGREGATION; BED HEIGHT; BINARY SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; GAS-FLUIDIZED BEDS; GAS-SOLID; GAUSSIANS; LOG-NORMAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MEAN PARTICLE DIAMETER; MONODISPERSE; NONMONOTONIC; POLYDISPERSES; SEGREGATION;

BUBBLE FORMATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDIZATION; GASES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYDISPERSITY; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

EID: 78349263431     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12219     Document Type: Article

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