A model for the prediction of thermal resistance of calcium sulfate crystallization fouling in a liquid–solid fluidized bed heat exchanger with cylindrical particles

Abstract

Calcium sulfate fouling was determined experimentally in a heat exchanger during liquid–solid fluidized bed with cylindrical particles and forced convective (without particles) heat transfer. Then a model to predict the fouling resistance during the solid–liquid fluidized bed heating system was proposed. According to the proposed model and experimental data, a correlation is presented for the prediction of fouling resistances of calcium sulfate during liquid–solid fluidized bed heating at any time. Finally, the prediction of the presented correlation for performed fouling is compared with measured data. Results show that the absolute average percent relative error between experimental data and those obtained by the proposed model vary between 0.6 and 22.8.