Abstract
The relative roles of mass transfer and chemical reaction in controlling combustion rates in fluidized beds are examined in the light of measurements of char-particle combustion kinetics and correlated data on gas—particle mass transfer in fluidized beds. It is concluded that at 1200 K mass transfer is the main rate-control influence for materials having reactivities the same as, or higher than, a char from a swelling bituminous coal. Mass transfer has little effect on the combustion rate of materials whose reactivity to oxygen is one-tenth that of the bituminous coal char. At 800 K, chemical reaction control is dominant for all reactivities considered. The main uncertainty in the present calculations arises from the lack of a suitable analysis of mass-transfer rates in conditions appropriate to fluidized-bed combustion.
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