Bed expansion and fluctuation in cylindrical gas solid fluidized beds with stirred promoters

A profound and fundamental understanding of bed dynamics such as bed expansion ratio and bed fluctuation ratio of irregular particles of binary mixtures has been made in a cylindrical fluidized column for gas solid systems, resulting in a predictive model for fluidized beds. In the present work attempt has been made to study the effect of various system parameters (viz. rotational speed of the promoter, initial static bed height, superficial velocity of the fluidizing medium, particle size and density) on the bed dynamics through experimentation. The correlations for the bed dynamics have been developed on the basis of dimensional analysis. It was observed that the calculated values of bed dynamics agree well with the experimental values in most of the cases.