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CFD analysis of Hydrodynamics of 2 D fluidized beds

Fluidized bed systems have the potential to be widely used in the power generation, mineral processing and chemical industries. One factor limiting their increased use is the lack of adequate design techniques for the scaling such systems. A model has been developed for simulating gas-solid fluidized bed. The model uses a multi phase Eulerian Eulerian technique to predict the transient behavior of fluidized bed systems. The commercial CFD code Fluent 6.1 is used as the computational frame work for solving the discretized equations. The model is used to predict Hydrodynamics in a two-dimensional bubbling fluidized bed. Predictions of two dimensional model show bubble formation with gas bubbles or voids preferentially moving along the bed.

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