Experimental and CFD study on the hydrodynamic characters of dense liquid-solid fluidized bed

Abstract

In a recent study the bed expansion height and liquid phase velocity was measured for liquid-solid fluidized bed with 0.10 m in diameter and 1.037m in height. Liquid flow velocity measurements were performed using the ultrasonic technique. Measurements of the bed expansion height were conducted by a graph paper marked along the length of the column. The Eulerian-Eulerian framework was employed in the CFD simulation of liquid hydrodynamics and solid motion in liquid fluidized bed. The typical flow pattern of the liquid-solid fluidized bed was obtained in the present calculation, i.e., the core annular flow pattern and back mixing near the wall region. Different fluid-particle drag models, virtual mass force and lift force effects were studied in the simulation. Also, comparisons of different restitution coefficients for particle-particle collisions as well as particle-wall interactions have been carried out to study the effect of particle collisions on solid concentration distributions, and a comprehensive CFD methodology is proposed to simulate the hydrodynamics of liquid-solid fluidized bed. A good agreement was demonstrated between CFD simulation results and experimental findings.