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7 - Spouted and spout-fluid beds with draft tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2011

By
Željko B. Grbavčić ,
Howard Littman ,
Morris H. Morgan III  and
John D. Paccione
Edited by
Norman Epstein  and
John R. Grace
Norman Epstein
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
John R. Grace
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Summary

The draft tube spout-fluid bed (DTSFB) is an extremely versatile fluid–particle system that can be widely applied industrially. This configuration aids performance because control of the fluid residence time and solid cycle time distributions can be accomplished easily. Thus understanding the solid and fluid phase hydrodynamics is essential to optimizing DTSFB operation.

A typical DTSFB system consists of four interconnected zones, as shown in Figure 7.1: a spout-fluid bed feeder, a moving bed annulus, a draft tube (pneumatic conveyor), and a freeboard fountain. For a given geometry and particles, five control quantities determine the bed hydrodynamics: the inlet jet fluid mass flowrate, Fj0; the inlet auxiliary fluid mass flowrate, Fax0; the internal annulus fluid mass flowrate, Fa; the inlet section length, Li; and the annulus height, Ha. The draft tube inlet length, Li, controls both the fluid leakage and solids crossflow. The auxiliary fluid mass flow, Fax0, controls the pressure drop across the bed and alters the internal solids flow. To describe the overall and local dynamics of such systems, appropriate fluid and particle models must be devised for each separate region of the DTSFB. The discussion in this chapter addresses operating characteristics, applications, and design concepts. Initially we focus on the basic hydrodynamic features of these systems, and then we provide an overview of applications involving the basic DTSFB and novel hybrid configurations.

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Spouted and Spout-Fluid Beds
Fundamentals and Applications
 , pp. 128 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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