FLUIDIZATION

TYPES OF FLUIDIZATION
& IT’S APPLICATION
SMIT CHAUHAN (190110105005) AVNI CHAVDA (190110105006)
LAKSHYA CHOVATIA (190110105007) JAINIT DAVE (190110105008)
 FLUIDIZATION
•  FLUIDISATION IS A PROCESS SIMILAR TO LIQUEFACTION WHEREBY
A GRANULAR MATERIAL IS CONVERTED FROM A STATIC SOLID LIKE STATE
TO A DYNAMIC FLUID LIKE STATE.
• THIS PROCESS OCCURS WHEN A FLUID IS PASSED UP THROUGH THE
GRANULAR MATERIAL.
• I.E.
• FLUIDIZATION IS TE PROCESS IN WHICH SOLIDS ARE CAUSED TO BEHAVE
LIKE FLUDIS BY BLOWING GASES OR LIQUID UPWARDS THROUGH THE
SOLID FILLED REACTOR.
 FLUIDIZATION

• THE TERMS FLUIDIZATION AND FLUIDIZED BED ARE USED TO DESCRIBE THE
CONDITION OF FULLY SUSPENDED PARTICLE, SINCE THE SUSPENSION BEHAVE AS A
DENSE FLUID.

• FLUIDIZATION REFERS TO THOSE GAS-SOLIDS AND LIQUID-SOLIDS SYSTEM IN

WHICH THE SOLID PHASE IS SUBJECTED TO BEHAVE MORE OR LESS LIKE A FLUID BY
THE UPWELLING CURRENT OF GAS OR LIQUID STREAM MOVING THROUGH THE BED
OF SOLID PARTICLES.
 TYPES OF FLUIDIZATION

• THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF THE FLUIDIZATION THOUGH, THE MAIN TWO
ARE CONSIDERED ARE;
PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION
BUBBLLING FLUIDIZATION
 PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION

• THIS OCCURS MAINLY WITH LIQUID-SOLID FLUIDIZED SYSTEM.

• PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION IS A CONDITION WHEN PARTICLES IN
A FLUIDIZED BED ARE INDIVIDUALLY SUSPENDED. WHEN PARTICLES
ARE FLUIDIZED BY A LIQUID OR A GAS UNDER HIGH PRESSURE, THE RESULT
IS OFTEN PARTICULATE FLUIDIZATION.
• IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY A LARGE BUT UNIFORM EXPANSION OF THE BED AT
HIGH VELOCITIES.
• THE AVERAGE BED DENSITY AT A GIVEN VELOCITIES IS THE SAME IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE BED.
 AGGERITATIVE FLUIDIZATION

• THIS TYPE OF THE FLUIDIZATION IS ALSO TERMED AS BUBBLING

FLUIDIZATION.
• THE TYPE OF FLUIDIZATION THAT OCCURS WHEN THE FLUID AND SOLIDS
HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT DENSITIES, AS OCCURS IN GAS/SOLID
SYSTEMS AND SOME LIQUID/SOLID SYSTEMS.
• AS GAS VELOCITY INCREASES, A FRACTION OF THE GAS WILL PASS THROUGH
THE BED IN THE FORM OF BUBBLES.
• THE VELOCITY AT WHICH THE BUBBLE FIRST FORM IS KNOWN AS THE
MINIMUM BUBBLIZATION FLUIDIZATION.
PARTICULATE V/S AGGERITATIVE
 ADVANTAGES OF THE FLUIDIZATION

AS THE FOLLOWING ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF THE FLUIDIZATION, THE

FLUIDIZATION IN VAST APPLICATIONS:
FLUIDIZED SOLIDS CAN BE TRANSFERRED BETWEEN THE REACTORS.
THE INTENSE MIXING WITHIN A FLUIDIZED BED MEANS THAT IT’S
TEMPERATURE IS UNIFORM.
THERE IS EXCELLENT HEAT TRANSFER BETWEEN A FLUIDIZED BED AND
THE HEAT EXCHANGERS IMMERSED IN THE BED.
TO AVOID PARTICLES IN THE FLOW.
 APPLICATION OF THE FLUIDIZATION

• FLUIDIZATION HAS MANY APPLICATIONS WITH THE USE OF ION EXCHANGE PARTICLES

FOR THE PURIFICATION AND PROCESSING OF MANY INDUSTRIAL LIQUID STREAMS.

ROASTING OR ORES
COMBUSTION AND INCINERATION
GASIFICATION, COKING AND PYROLYSIS OR CARBONIZATION
CALCINATION
 APPLICATION OF FLUIDIZATION

• FLURINATTION OF URANIUM OXIDE

• FLUID COCKING
• REDUCTION OF IRON OXIDE
• CATALYST REGENEARTION
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