Abstract

The gas-particle flow in a fluidized bed is characterized as a “core-annulus” pattern with transient clusters moving along the circulating fluidized bed riser. These clusters exist as regions with a higher concentration of particles and are surrounded by dispersed particles at lower concentrations. In this study, fluid dynamics of both the clusters and dispersed particles suspended in the risers were investigated using the four-way coupled second-order moment method of the fluid–particle Eulerian–Eulerian two-fluid model. In the simulation, the anisotropic turbulence of either phase in the clusters and dispersed particles was studied in the risers. According to the turbulence intensities of both phases, the gas-particle flow in the fluidized riser was classified into six zones, the wall effect, cluster edge, cluster rising, cluster falling, and transient zone between the cluster rising and falling zones. As the volume fraction of the particles increased, the anisotropic ratios of the turbulence intensities in both phases increased in the dispersed zone and decreased in the cluster zone, respectively.

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