Heat and mass transfer study in fluidized bed granulation—Prediction of entry length--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

Roy, P., Vashishtha, M., Khanna, R., & Subbarao, D. (2009). Heat and mass transfer study in fluidized bed granulation—Prediction of entry length. Particuology, 7(3), 215–219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2009.03.004

Heat and mass transfer study in fluidized bed granulation—Prediction of entry length

Papiya Roy ^a *, Manish Vashishtha ^a, Rajesh Khanna ^a, Duvvuri Subbarao ^b

a Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India
b Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia

10.1016/j.partic.2009.03.004

Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 215-219

Received 4 October 2008, Accepted 3 March 2009, Available online 22 April 2009.

E-mail: papiya.roy@gmail.com

Highlights

Abstract

Fluidized bed granulation is a process by which granules or coated particles are produced in a single piece of equipment by spraying a binder as solution, suspension, or melt on the fluidized powder bed. Heat and mass transfer correlation useful for designing a granulator has been derived based on the equivalence of evaporation rate of the liquid to the heat transferred from hot gas to particles:

This equation is applied to data on granulation experiments by different workers to calculate Reynolds number and Nusselt number to obtain a relation between heat and mass transfer from gas to particles during granulation on a logarithmic scale from which the following empirical relation is obtained:

N_u=0.0205Re^1.3876

which is comparable to Kothari's correlation

N_u=0.03Re^1.3

By using the heat and mass transfer correlation obtained, the entry length, that is the length of granulator up to which effective heat transfer from gas to bed particles takes place, is estimated, which is also validated with experimental study. The correct estimation of entry length is useful in optimal design of a granulator.

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Keywords

Granulation; Fluidized bed; Gas to particle heat transfer; Entry length

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