Fluidization Engineering

Introduction; Industrial Applications of Fluidized Beds; Fluidization and Mapping of Regimes; The Dense Bed: Distributors, Gas Jets, and Pumping Power; Bubbles in Dense Beds; Bubbling Fluidized Beds; Entrainment and Elutration from Fluidized Beds; High-Velocity Fluidization; Solid Movement: Mixing, Segregation, and Staging; Gas Dispersion and Gas Interchange in Bubbling Beds; Particle-to-Gas Mass and Heat Transfer; Conversion of Gas in Catalytic Reactions; Heat Transfer between Fluidized Beds and Surfaces; The RTD and Size Distribution of Solids in Fluidized Beds; Circulation Systems; Design for Physical Operations; Design of Catalytic Reactors; The Design of Non catalytic Gas-Solid Reactors.