1st Edition

Handbook of Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems

Edited By Wen-Ching Yang Copyright 2003
    876 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This reference details particle characterization, dynamics, manufacturing, handling, and processing for the employment of multiphase reactors, as well as procedures in reactor scale-up and design for applications in the chemical, mineral, petroleum, power, cement and pharmaceuticals industries. The authors discuss flow through fixed beds, elutriation and entrainment, gas distributor and plenum design in fluidized beds, effect of internal tubes and baffles, general approaches to reactor design, applications for gasifiers and combustors, dilute phase pneumatic conveying, and applications for chemical production and processing. This is a valuable guide for chemists and engineers to use in their day-to-day work.

    Particle characterization and dynamics, Wen-Ching Yang

    Flow through fixed beds, Wen-Ching Yang

    Bubbling fluidized beds, Wen-Ching Yang

    Elutriation and entrainment, Joachim Werther and Ernst-Ulrich Hartge

    Effect of temperature and pressure, J.G. Yates

    Gas distributor and plenum design in fluidized beds, S.B. Reddy Karri and Joachim Werther

    Effect of internal tubes and baffles, Yong Jin, Fei Wei, and Yao Wang

    Attrition, Joachim Werther and Jens Reppenhagen

    Modelling, Thomas C. Ho

    Heat transfer, John C. Chen

    Mass transfer, Thomas C. Ho

    General approaches to reactor design, Peijun Jiang, Fei Wei, and Liang-Shih Fan

    Fluidized bed scaleup, Leon R. Glicksman

    Applications for fluid catalytic cracking, Ye-Mon Chen

    Applications for gasifiers and combustors, Richard A. Newby

    Applications for chemical production and processing, Behzad Jazayeri

    Applications for coating and granulation, Gabriel I. Tardos and Paul Mort

    Applications for fluidized bed drying, Arun Mujumdar and Sakamon Devahastin

    Circulating fluidized beds, John R. Grace, Hsiaotao Bi, and Mohammad Golriz

    Other nonconventional fluidized beds, Wen-Ching Yang

    Standpipes and nonmechanical valves, T.M. Knowlton

    Cyclone separators, T.M. Knowlton

    Dilute phase pneumatic conveying, George E. Klinzing

    Electrostatics in pneumatic conveying, George E. Klinzing

    Instrumentation and measurements, Rafal Kobylecki, Mayumi Tsukada, and Masayuki Horio

    Liquid-solids fluidization, Norman Epstein

    Gas-liquid-solid three-phase fluidization, Liang-Shih Fan and Guoqiang Yang

    Liquid-solids separation, Shiao-Hung Chiang, Daxin He, and Yuru Feng

    Biography

    Wen-Ching Yang is Advisory Engineer, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of numerous journal articles, book chapters and books, he holds 11 patents and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the American Chemical Society. The recipient of the Fluor Daniel Lectureship Award in Fluidization (2000) and the Dow Chemical Fluidized Processes Recognition Award (1993), Dr. Yang received the B.S. degree (1962) in chemical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, the M.S. degree (1965) in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Ph.D. degree (1968) from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.