Electroheated fluidised beds

Use of electroheated fluidised beds is a fast-growing branch of electroheating, but this growth has been hampered because the models available hitherto were incomplete, in that they ignored flow and mode dependence and were unnecessarily complicated for the engineer concerned with practical industrial processes. A class of conducting fluidised beds, representing common chemical, metallurgical and industrial processes, has been studied. New models are developed which are complete and are much easier to manipulate for studies of existing or proposed beds with their control systems, and which can readily be determined from a simple test series. They have been found to represent these beds with an accuracy sufficient for many practical studies. The presentation is intended for the professional engineer concerned with the application and control of these beds in industrial processes.