Overview
- Introduces the unique phenomenon of structured flow in pulsed fluidized beds
- Demonstrates both engineering potentials and fundamental mechanisms of the methodology
- Proposes a pattern recognition algorithm
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book analyses the use of a pulsed gas flow to structure bubbling gas-solid fluidised beds and to induce a special fluidisation state, called "dynamically structured flow", as a promising approach to process intensification.
It explores the properties of bubbles rising in staggered periodic arrays without direct interaction, assessing their size, separation, and velocity, and explains how a highly uniform, scalable flow offers tight control over the system hydrodynamics. These features are desirable, as they not only bypass engineering challenges occurring in traditional operations, such as maldistribution and non-uniform contact, but also allow to decouple conflicting design objectives, such as mixing and gas-solid contact. The thesis also presents computational simulations which reveal the periodic transitions of the particulate phase between fluid-like and solid-like behaviour.This book will be of interest to researchers, engineers, and graduate students alike, particularly those working in industrial drying, combustion, and chemical production.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Kaiqiao Wu gained his BEng from East China University of Science and Technology in 2013, and his MSc and PhD from University College London in 2014 and 2020 respectively. He has published several papers in international journals, and has presented at conferences. He has won prizes for best talk in sessions, and placed second in the IChemE Young Researcher Awards at UK-China International PTF VII, 2019. He is currently a Research Fellow at TU Delft.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamically Structured Flow in Pulsed Fluidised Beds
Authors: Kaiqiao Wu
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68752-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68751-9Published: 28 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68754-0Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68752-6Published: 27 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 161
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Engineering Fluid Dynamics