Fluidized-Bed Reactors: Processes and Operating Conditions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • John G. Yates, Paola Lettieri

   Pages 1-21

3. Catalytic Processes

   • John G. Yates, Paola Lettieri

   Pages 23-65

4. Non-catalytic Processes, Combustion, Gasification and Chemical Looping

   • John G. Yates, Paola Lettieri

   Pages 67-109

5. Conversion of Biomass and Waste Fuels in Fluidized-Bed Reactors

   • John G. Yates, Paola Lettieri

   Pages 111-135

6. Effect of Process Conditions on Fluidization

   • John G. Yates, Paola Lettieri

   Pages 137-173

7. Fluidized-Bed Scaling

   • John G. Yates, Paola Lettieri

   Pages 175-194

8. Back Matter

   Pages 195-205

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The fluidized-bed reactor is the centerpiece of industrial fluidization processes. This book focuses on the design and operation of fluidized beds in many different industrial processes, emphasizing the rationale for choosing fluidized beds for each particular process. The book starts with a brief history of fluidization from its inception in the 1940’s. The authors present both the fluid dynamics of gas-solid fluidized beds and the extensive experimental studies of operating systems and they set them in the context of operating processes that use fluid-bed reactors.
Chemical engineering students and postdocs as well as practicing engineers will find great interest in this book.

• Fluidized bed combustion
• Gas-solid fluidization
• Fluidization engineering
• Fluidized catalytic cracking
• Industrial fluidized baths
• Chemical looping combustion
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Reactor design
• fluid- and aerodynamics

• Dept of Chemical Engineering, University College London Dept of Chemical Engineering, London, United Kingdom

  John G. Yates

• Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  Paola Lettieri

John G. Yates, Ramsay Memorial Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at UCL, is one of the pioneers on Particle Technology and is widely recognized especially on the field of fluidized bed applications. He wrote one of the earliest books on the subject in 1983 "Fundamentals of fluidized-bed chemical processes", Butterworth-Heinemann. John G. Yates is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Paola Lettieri, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Vice Dean in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at UCL, heads the fluidization group and is internationally recognized for her expertise on the prediction and control of fluidized beds at process conditions. Recipient of two prestigious fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering, her work has a strong emphasis on industrial applications and has contributed to the development and operation of industrial processes in the petrochemical, chemical, energy-from-waste and nuclear sectors. Prior to her academic career, Paola Lettieri worked in fluidization at the BP Chemicals Research Centre in Sunbury. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.

 

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