HIDRODYNAMICS AND OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF A CONTINUOUS MULTISTAGE VERTICAL FLUIDIZED BED SYSTEM

A continuous vertical fluidized-bed dryer operates through a series of downcomers that transfer solids from anupper low-pressure stage to a lower high-pressure one. This work informs on the results testing a system of plasticparticles of 0.009m diameter, 1090 kg/m3 of density, and 0.94 of sphericity...

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Autores: J.J. Chanona-Pérez, T. Santiago-Pineda, I. Anaya-Sosa, L. Alamilla-Beltrán, G. F. Gutiérrez-López, M.G. Vizcarra-Mendoza
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Repositorio:Redalyc-UAM
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:62060108
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=62060108
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ingeniería
bed
fluidized
downcomer
fluidization
continuous dryer
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Sumario:A continuous vertical fluidized-bed dryer operates through a series of downcomers that transfer solids from anupper low-pressure stage to a lower high-pressure one. This work informs on the results testing a system of plasticparticles of 0.009m diameter, 1090 kg/m3 of density, and 0.94 of sphericity, under a counter-current airflow in twopressure stages. Each stage has 0.25m internal diameter Perspex tube and a height of 0.6m. Perspex tubes having0.032 and 0.057m, internal diameter, fitted with a conic valve at the end of each one were used as downcomers inthe experimental system. By using a 23 experimental factorial design, it was observed that the fact with the highestinfluence on the results was the length of bed/ diameter of bed (L/D). It was also found that the downcomer withthe widest diameter showed the best behavior when operating with an L/D = 0.5 and an L/D =1, and gave a lowerdragging risk as compared to the narrowest diameter.