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Micro-flow structure at regime transition from bubbling to turbulent fluidization in a fluidized bed

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Gas-solid fluidized beds have found extensive utilization in frontline manufacturing,in particular as low-velocity beds.The fluidization status,the bubbling or turbulent flow regime and the transition in between,determine the system performance in practical applications.Though the convoluted hydrodynamics are quantitively evaluated through numerous data-processing methodologies,none of them alone can reflect all the critical information to identify the transition from the bubbling to the turbulent regime.Accord-ingly,this study was to exploit a coupling data processing methodology,in the combination of standard deviation,power spectrum density,probability density function,wavelet transform,and wavelet multi-resolution method,to jointly explain the micro-flow structure at the regime transition from bubbling to turbulent fluidization.The transient differential pressure fluctuation was measured for the evaluation in a fluidized bed(0.267 m i.d.× 2.5 m height)with FCC catalysts(dp=65 μm,ρp=1780 kg/m3)at different superficial gas velocities(0.02-1.4 m/s).The results show that the onset of turbulent fluidization starts earlier in the top section of the bed than in the bottom section.The wavelet decomposition displays that the fluctuation of differential pressure mainly concentrates on the sub-signals with an intermediate frequency band.These sub-signals could be synthesized into three types of scales(micro-scale,meso-scale,and macro-scale),representing the multi-scale hydrodynamics in the fluidized bed.The micro-scale signal has the characteristic information of bubbling fluidization,and the characteristic informa-tion of turbulent fluidization is mainly represented by the meso-scale signal.This work provides a sys-tematic comprehension of fluidization status assessment and serves as an impetus for more coupling analysis in this sector.

Flow regime transitionBubbling fluidizationTurbulent fluidizationMicro-flow structureDifferential pressure fluctuation

Chaoyu Yan、Yue Yuan、Xiaoyang Wei、Jesse Zhu

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State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing,Beijing Key Laboratory of Process Fluid Filtration and Separation,College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering,China University of Petroleum,Beijing 102249,China

China Beacons Institute,The University of Nottingham,Ningbo,315100,China

Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,University of Western Ontario,London,Ontario,N6A 5B9,Canada

国家留学基金委项目Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum,Beijing

2462015YQ0301

2024

颗粒学报(英文版)
中国颗粒学会 中国科学院过程工程研究所

颗粒学报(英文版)

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影响因子:0.632
ISSN:1674-2001
年,卷(期):2024.89(6)
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