Abstract
Limestone particle attrition was investigated in a small circulating fluidized bed reactor at temperatures from 25 to 850 °C, 1 atm pressure and superficial gas velocities from 4.8 to 6.2 m/s. The effects of operating time, superficial gas velocity and temperature were studied with fresh limestone. No calcination or sulfation occurred at temperatures ⩽580 °C, whereas calcination and sulfation affected attrition at 850 °C. Increasing the temperature (while maintaining the same superficial gas velocity) reduced attrition if there was negligible calcination. Attrition was high initially, but after ∼24 h, the rate of mass change became constant. The ratio of initial mean particle diameter to that at later times increased linearly with time and with (Ug − Umf)2, while decreasing exponentially with temperature, with an activation energy for fresh limestone of −4.3 kJ/mol. The attrition followed Rittinger’s surface theory [Beke B. Comminution. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1964; Ray YC, Jiang TS, Wen CY. Particle attrition phenomena in a fluidized bed. Powder Technol 1987a; 49:193–206]. The change of surface area of limestone particles was proportional to the total excess kinetic energy consumed and to the total attrition time, whereas the change of surface area decreased exponentially with increasing temperature. At 850 °C, the attrition rate of calcined lime was highest, whereas the attrition rate was lowest for sulfated particles. When online impact attrition was introduced, the attrition rate was about an order of magnitude higher than without impacts.
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