Wall‐to‐bed heat transfer in liquid—solid and gas—liquid—solid fluidized beds part I: Liquid—solid fluidized beds

Abstract

AbstractExperimental work was conducted to investigate the effect of particle size and particle density upon the wall‐to‐bed heat transfer characteristics in liquid—solid fluidized beds with a 95.6 mm column diameter over a wide range of operating conditions. The radial temperature profile was found to be parabolic, indicating the presence of a considerable bed resistance. The effective radial thermal conductivity and the apparent wall film coefficient were obtained on the basis of a series thermal resistance model.The modified Peclet number of the radial thermal conductivity decreases upon the onset of fluidization, has a minimum at a bed porosity of 0.6 to 0.7 and increases with further increase of bed porosity. The modified Peclet number decreases considerably with decreasing particle size or increasing particle density. The apparent wall heat transfer coefficient can be represented well by a Colburn j‐factor correlation over a wide range of data as follows:j′H = 0.137 Re′−0.271A close analogy is found to exist between the modified j‐factor for wall heat transfer coefficient and that for wall mass transfer coefficient, in liquid—solid fluidized beds.