International Journal of Engineering, Science and Mathematics
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 6

“An advanced modelling of bubbling fluidized bed for addressing hydro dynamic type of flow interms of material balance for gases and solids towards sustainable development comprising the balanced optimization oriented modelling aspects of bubbling size”

  • Author:
  • G. Kalivarathan, David Santosh Christopher, Mebratu Markos
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • Page Number: 127 to 139

*Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, WolaitaSodo University, Ethiopia

**Head of the Department, Mechanical Engineering, WolaitaSodo University, Ethiopia

Online published on 3 December, 2019.

Abstract

Generally, it is predicted that fluidized beds are used to have better performance in terms of combustion chemistry and reasonable chemical kinetics for the combustion process in order to satisfy the requirements of reliable quantity of fuel along with its favouring resistance for any application with less environmental pollution. In this contact, a modest attempt has been made for modeling, bubbling fluidized bed for representing hydrodynamic type of flow in term of material balance for gases and solids towards sustainable development by holding very less environmental pollution. The formation of “phthalic anhydride ’’ is highly exothermic, and even with the most careful design, the heat removal from packed bed reactors can become unchangeable, leading to temperature runaways, melts downs and even explosions.

The invention of the fluidized bed with its suspended and rapidly mixing solids completely overcomes this critical situation. This is because, the rapid mixing of solids, and the large heat sink as solids will only allow the bed temperature to change very slowly and it can be easily controlled. Another critical situation in this contact is that, catalyst formulation has been very successful in creating better and better catalyst, these that give higher and higher rates of reaction. The catalyst volumetric efficiency is usually kept with “Thiele modulus” and it is noticed that by using smaller and smaller particles, as overall reaction rate constant is made higher and higher. This leads to use suspended solids and also it is noted that with these very effective catalysts, the required residence time of reactant gas becomes very small, a fact records for a large 30 m higher reactor. The expressions developed/modeled slows that, if εmf- void fractions in gas solid systems at minimum fluidizing condition are known, then m3 of wake per m3 of bubble can be estimated and then the superficial gas velocity in bed u0 and umf gas velocity at minimum fluidized condition can be measured and finally all the flow quantities and reginal volumes can be determined in terms of size of the bubble. The use of this model is to calculate chemical reactor behavior as a direct method. The special feature of this model is that it's one parameter can be tested against what is measured and what is observed. Basically hydro dynamic models rests may develop either large bubbles or small bubbles depending on bed diameter, distribution design, baffle arrangements etc, therefore, bubble size must enter as the primary parameter in the model. Hence the consequence of this factor is that models which donot allow for different bubble sizes at given imposed bed condition certainly cannot be adequate. Therefore it is predicted that the feasibility of this type of model for bubbling fluidized bed for representing hydrodynamic types of flow holds reasonable validity and identity towards agreeable sustainable development because of its uniqueness exhaustively.

Keywords

Bubbling Fluidized Bed, hydrodynamic flow, chemical kinetics, material balance, “phthalic anhydride”, Thiele modulus, Voids fraction in gas solid systems, gas velocity, bubble size, wakes, less environment pollution, K-L model for BFB, cloud, emulsion, minimum fluidization