Digital image analysis measurements of bed expansion and segregation dynamics in dense gas-fluidised beds

MJV Goldschmidt, JM Link, S Mellema, JAM Kuipers - Powder Technology, 2003 - Elsevier
One of the most crucial steps in the development of fundamental hydrodynamic models is
the validation of these models with accurate, detailed experimental data. Therefore a whole …

Mixing and segregation in a bidisperse gas–solid fluidised bed: a numerical and experimental study

GA Bokkers, M van Sint Annaland, JAM Kuipers - Powder Technology, 2004 - Elsevier
In many industrial applications of dense gas–solid fluidised beds, mixing and segregation
phenomena play a very important role. The extent of mixing and segregation is strongly …

Investigation into the hydrodynamics of gas–solid fluidized beds using particle image velocimetry coupled with digital image analysis

JA Laverman, I Roghair… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrodynamics of a freely bubbling, pseudo 2‐D fluidized bed has been investigated
experimentally for different bed aspect ratios at different superficial gas velocities by using …

Granular dynamics simulation of segregation phenomena in bubbling gas-fluidised beds

BPB Hoomans, JAM Kuipers, WPM van Swaaij - Powder Technology, 2000 - Elsevier
A hard-sphere discrete particle model of a gas-fluidised bed was used in order to simulate
segregation phenomena in systems consisting of particles of different sizes. In the model …

Gas and solids between dynamic bubble and emulsion in gas-fluidized beds

H Cui, N Mostoufi, J Chaouki - Powder Technology, 2001 - Elsevier
The gas and solid distributions of the dynamic two-phase structure in fluidized beds were
studied by statistic analysis of experimental results from an optical fiber probe. The FCC …

Hydrodynamic modelling of dense gas-fluidised beds: comparison and validation of 3D discrete particle and continuum models

MJV Goldschmidt, R Beetstra, JAM Kuipers - Powder Technology, 2004 - Elsevier
A critical comparison of a hard-sphere discrete particle model, a two-fluid model with kinetic
theory closure equations and experiments performed in a pseudo-two-dimensional gas …

Two-or three-dimensional simulations of turbulent gas–solid flows applied to fluidization

E Peirano, V Delloume, B Leckner - Chemical Engineering Science, 2001 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations of a stationary bubbling fluidized bed (BFB), based on an Eulerian
approach, are performed. The closure of the Eulerian model is treated with two-equation …

Comparison between two-fluid model simulations and particle image analysis & velocimetry (PIV) results for a two-dimensional gas–solid fluidized bed

F Hernández-Jiménez, S Sánchez-Delgado… - Chemical engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
This work compares simulation and experimental results of the hydrodynamics of a two-
dimensional, bubbling air-fluidized bed. The simulation in this study has been conducted …

Characterization of dynamic behaviour in gas–solid turbulent fluidized bed using chaos and wavelet analyses

N Ellis, LA Briens, JR Grace, HT Bi, CJ Lim - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2003 - Elsevier
The hydrodynamics of fluidized beds of FCC particles in a column of diameter 0.29 m were
investigated based on gauge and differential pressure signals, as well as optical voidage …

A novel method for the investigation of particle mixing in gas-solid systems

D Bellgardt, J Werther - Powder Technology, 1986 - Elsevier
Presented at the 1st World Congress on Particle Technology held in Nuremberg (FRG) April,
1986 A novel experimental technique for the investigation of solid particle mixing in gas …