Gas-solid fluidization technology has been commercialized in many industrial applications
since its implementation in the fluid catalytic cracking process in the early 1940s, however …

In the past few decades, multi-scale numerical methods have been developed to model
dense gas-solid flow in fluidized beds with different resolutions, accuracies, and efficiencies …

Numerical methods like computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for predicting multiphase flow
involving solid particles potentially offer promising benefits to a wide range of applications …

Circulating fluidized beds (CFBs) have been widely applied in coal combustion and
gasification industry due to their excellent performance in terms of fuel flexibility and …

Multiple cyclones are adopted to enlarge the capacity of circulating fluidized bed (CFB). In
this work, the effect of cyclone arrangements on the gas-solid flow dynamics in the three …

Particle clusters are well acknowledged to affect the hydrodynamics and overall
performance of gas-solid fluidized beds. Since one of the first reports on the clustering …

For many fluidized bed applications, the particle movement inside the reactor is
accompanied by reactions at the particle scale. The current study presents for the first time in …

In this paper, both full-loop and riser-only simulations of a pilot-scale circulating fluidized
bed (CFB) system carried out by the open-source code MFIX (Multiphase Flow with …

The present study aims to validate CFD–DEM (Discrete Element Method) simulations of
bubbling fluidized beds comprehensively, based on the small scale “challenge” problem …

In this work, a detailed grid refinement study was carried out for two well-documented
circulating fluidized bed (CFB) systems with the focus on grid convergence of 2D numerical …