1st Edition
Handbook of Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems
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.