Electrical capacitance volume tomography imaging of three-dimensional flow structures and solids concentration distributions in a riser and a bend of a gas-solid circulating fluidized bed

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 10968-10976

  Wang, Fei ^a   Marashdeh, Qussai ^a   Wang, Aining ^a   Fan, Liang Shih ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VOLUME; CENTRIFUGAL ACCELERATION; CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED; CORE-ANNULUS STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE VOLUME TOMOGRAPHIES; GAS-SOLID; GEOMETRIC FLOWS; HIGH-SOLIDS; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; RISER EXIT; SOLIDS CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION; SOLIDS HOLD-UP DISTRIBUTIONS; SOLIDS HOLDUPS; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW STRUCTURE; VERTICAL RISERS;

BUBBLE COLUMNS; CENTRIFUGATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84865512721     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie300746q     Document Type: Article

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