Conference Dates
May 16-21, 2010
Abstract
There are various techniques to characterize the hydrodynamic of fluidized beds. Nowadays, sensor development is widely used to determine the hydrodynamic state of a fluidized bed to improve control and safety of the operation of such reactors. The objective of this study was to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the intrusive and novel non-intrusive techniques. The measurement techniques investigated in this work were vibration of the bed, acoustic emission and pressure. Extensive measurements were carried out at different superficial gas velocities with different particle sizes. Vibration and acoustic emissions were recorded at 25 KHz for 30 s using accelerometer and microphone, respectively. Pressure fluctuation signals were also collected at a sampling frequency of 400 Hz. These measurements were used for investigating the changes in the flow structure, specifically the flow regime transitions. The recorded signals were processed using wavelet analysis and statistical tools. It was shown that the variation of standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis of vibration signals against superficial gas velocity of the bed obey the same trend for different techniques. Results indicated that analyzing the vibration and acoustic signals can be considered as effective non intrusive techniques to characterize the hydrodynamics of gas-solid fluidized beds and in some cases they show better prediction of the hydrodynamic parameters.
Recommended Citation
Rahmat Sotudeh-Gharebagh, Navid Mostoufi, Reza Zarghami, Mojgan Abbasi, and Nasim Salehi-Nik, "COMPARISON OF VARIOUS MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTERIZING THE HYDRODYNAMICS OF GAS-SOLID FLUIDIZED BEDS" in "The 13th International Conference on Fluidization - New Paradigm in Fluidization Engineering", Sang Done Kim,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea; Yong Kang, Chungnam National University, Korea; Jea Keun Lee, Pukyong National University, Korea; Yong Chil Seo, Yonsei University, Korea Eds, ECI Symposium Series, (2010). https://dc.engconfintl.org/fluidization_xiii/20