FLUIDIZATION
TYPES OF FLUIDIZATION
& IT’S APPLICATION
SMIT CHAUHAN (190110105005) AVNI CHAVDA (190110105006)
LAKSHYA CHOVATIA (190110105007) JAINIT DAVE (190110105008)
FLUIDIZATION
• FLUIDISATION IS A PROCESS SIMILAR TO LIQUEFACTION WHEREBY
A GRANULAR MATERIAL IS CONVERTED FROM A STATIC SOLID LIKE STATE
TO A DYNAMIC FLUID LIKE STATE.
• THIS PROCESS OCCURS WHEN A FLUID IS PASSED UP THROUGH THE
GRANULAR MATERIAL.
• I.E.
• FLUIDIZATION IS TE PROCESS IN WHICH SOLIDS ARE CAUSED TO BEHAVE
LIKE FLUDIS BY BLOWING GASES OR LIQUID UPWARDS THROUGH THE
SOLID FILLED REACTOR.
FLUIDIZATION
• THE TERMS FLUIDIZATION AND FLUIDIZED BED ARE USED TO DESCRIBE THE
CONDITION OF FULLY SUSPENDED PARTICLE, SINCE THE SUSPENSION BEHAVE AS A
DENSE FLUID.
• FLUIDIZATION REFERS TO THOSE GAS-SOLIDS AND LIQUID-SOLIDS SYSTEM IN
WHICH THE SOLID PHASE IS SUBJECTED TO BEHAVE MORE OR LESS LIKE A FLUID BY
THE UPWELLING CURRENT OF GAS OR LIQUID STREAM MOVING THROUGH THE BED
OF SOLID PARTICLES.
TYPES OF FLUIDIZATION
• THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF THE FLUIDIZATION THOUGH, THE MAIN TWO
ARE CONSIDERED ARE;
PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION
BUBBLLING FLUIDIZATION
PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION
• THIS OCCURS MAINLY WITH LIQUID-SOLID FLUIDIZED SYSTEM.
• PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION IS A CONDITION WHEN PARTICLES IN
A FLUIDIZED BED ARE INDIVIDUALLY SUSPENDED. WHEN PARTICLES
ARE FLUIDIZED BY A LIQUID OR A GAS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE, THE RESULT
IS OFTEN PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION.
• IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY A LARGE BUT UNIFORM EXPANSION OF THE BED AT
HIGH VELOCITIES.
• THE AVERAGE BED DENSITY AT A GIVEN VELOCITIES IS THE SAME IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE BED.
AGGERITATIVE FLUIDIZATION
• THIS TYPE OF THE FLUIDIZATION IS ALSO TERMED AS BUBBLING
FLUIDIZATION.
• THE TYPE OF FLUIDIZATION THAT OCCURS WHEN THE FLUID AND SOLIDS
HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT DENSITIES, AS OCCURS IN GAS/SOLID
SYSTEMS AND SOME LIQUID/SOLID SYSTEMS.
• AS GAS VELOCITY INCREASES, A FRACTION OF THE GAS WILL PASS THROUGH
THE BED IN THE FORM OF BUBBLES.
• THE VELOCITY AT WHICH THE BUBBLE FIRST FORM IS KNOWN AS THE
MINIMUM BUBBLIZATION FLUIDIZATION.
PARTICULATE V/S AGGERITATIVE
ADVANTAGES OF THE FLUIDIZATION
AS THE FOLLOWING ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF THE FLUIDIZATION, THE
FLUIDIZATION IN VAST APPLICATIONS:
FLUIDIZED SOLIDS CAN BE TRANSFERRED BETWEEN THE REACTORS.
THE INTENSE MIXING WITHIN A FLUIDIZED BED MEANS THAT IT’S
TEMPERATURE IS UNIFORM.
THERE IS EXCELLENT HEAT TRANSFER BETWEEN A FLUIDIZED BED AND
THE HEAT EXCHANGERS IMMERSED IN THE BED.
TO AVOID PARTICLES IN THE FLOW.
APPLICATION OF THE FLUIDIZATION
• FLUIDIZATION HAS MANY APPLICATIONS WITH THE USE OF ION EXCHANGE PARTICLES
FOR THE PURIFICATION AND PROCESSING OF MANY INDUSTRIAL LIQUID STREAMS.
ROASTING OR ORES
COMBUSTION AND INCINERATION
GASIFICATION, COKING AND PYROLYSIS OR CARBONIZATION
CALCINATION
APPLICATION OF FLUIDIZATION
• FLURINATTION OF URANIUM OXIDE
• FLUID COCKING
• REDUCTION OF IRON OXIDE
• CATALYST REGENEARTION
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