Fluidization and bubbling behavior of potash particles in a deep fluidized bed--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

Nabipoor Hassankiadeh, M., Yang, J., Berrey, M., Jordison, D., Zhang, L., Bergstrom, D., & Spiteri, R. J. (2023). Fluidization and bubbling behavior of potash particles in a deep fluidized bed. Particuology, 80, 103-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2022.11.014

Fluidization and bubbling behavior of potash particles in a deep fluidized bed

Mojtaba Nabipoor Hassankiadeh ^a, Jingsi Yang ^a, Mark Berrey ^b, Dave Jordison ^b, Lifeng Zhang ^a *, Donald Bergstrom ^c, Raymond J. Spiteri ^d

a Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, SK, S7N 5A9, Saskatoon, Canada
b The Mosaic Company, Belle Plaine, SK, Canada
c Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
d Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

10.1016/j.partic.2022.11.014

Volume 80, September 2023, Pages 103-114

Received 3 October 2022, Revised 14 November 2022, Accepted 16 November 2022, Available online 1 December 2022, Version of Record 1 March 2023.

E-mail: Lifeng.zhang@usask.ca

Highlights

• Hydrodynamic behavior of potash particles in a deep fluidized bed was investigated.

• Bubbling behavior and solid fraction were measured using electrical capacitance tomography (ECT).

• Tomographic and sequential view of bubbles were illustrated in a deep fluidized bed column.

• Flow regime transition in a deep fluidized bed with potash particles was determined using ECT.

Abstract

Most existing models for predicting bubble size and bubble frequency have been developed for freely bubbling fluidized beds. Accurate prediction of bubbling behavior in deep fluidized beds, however, has been a challenge due to the higher degree of bubble coalescence and break up, high probability of the slugging regime, partial fluidization, and chaotic behavior in the bubbling regime. In this work, the bubbling and fluidization behavior of potash particles was investigated in a deep fluidized bed employing a twin-plane electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) system. Solid volume fraction, average bubble velocity, average bubble diameter, and bubble frequency in both bubbling and slugging regimes were measured at two different bed height ratios (H/D = 3.5 and H/D = 3.78). This work is the first to illustrate a sequential view of bubbles at different superficial gas velocities in a fluidized bed. The results show that both the bubble diameter and rising velocity increased with increasing the superficial gas velocity for the two bed heights, with larger values observed in the deeper bed compared to the shallower one. Predicted values for bubble diameter, bubble rise velocity and bubble frequency from different models are compared with the experimental data obtained from the ECT system in this work. Good agreement has been achieved between the values predicted by the previous models and the experimental data for the bubble diameter and bubble rise velocity with an average absolute deviation of 16% and 15% for the bed height of 49 cm and 13% and 8% for the bed height of 53 cm, respectively.

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Keywords

Deep fluidized bed; Potash particle; Electrical capacitance tomographyImage reconstruction; Bubbling and slugging regime

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