Numerical and experimental investigation of bubbling gas-solid fluidized beds with dense immersed tube bundles

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 7653-7666

  Schreiber, Matthias ^a   Asegehegn, Teklay W ^a   Krautz, Hans J ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE BREAK-UP; BUBBLE SIZE; BUBBLING FLUIDIZED BED; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; EULERIAN-EULERIAN; EXPANSION RATIO; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLUIDIZED BED TEST RIG; GAS-SOLID; GAS-SOLID FLUIDIZED BED; GRID SENSITIVITY; HORIZONTAL TUBES; IN-LINE; KINETIC THEORY OF GRANULAR FLOW; MESH SIZE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RISE VELOCITY; SHAPE FACTOR; SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY; TUBE ARRANGEMENTS; TUBE BANKS; TUBE BUNDLE; TWO FLUID MODEL;

ASPECT RATIO; BUBBLE FORMATION; COALESCENCE; FLUIDIZATION; PLASMA FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

EID: 79958865067     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie2002457     Document Type: Article

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