Heat Transfer in Fluidized Beds, 1997
Particle Technology Series, Vol. 11

This book provides a much needed and thorough treatment of the heat transfer in agitated disperse systems. It gives predictive equations for the heat transfer in moving beds, bubbling and circulating fluidized beds, pneumatic transport in vertical tubes and particulate fluidized beds. Owing to the many different modes of activation of heat transfer, the basic approach of the book is to provide experimental evidence of the relevance of particle motion to the proximity of solid surfaces for the heat transfer observed. This has been achieved by the evaluation of experiments obtained with a newly developed pulsed light method using luminous particles. Heat Transfer in Fluidized Beds will be of great use to students and researchers involved in heat transfer and thermodynamics.

Preface. Introduction. Particle migration at solid surfaces and heat transfer in bubbling fluidized beds. Heat transfer in particle beds. Heat transfer mechanisms in bubbling fluidized beds. Prediction of minimum fluidization velocity. Physical properties of the media. Prediction of heat transfer in bubbling fluidized beds at Ar10 8. Physical background to convective heat transfer. Heat transfer at elevated temperatures. Historical remarks. Fluid dynamics of circulating fluidized beds. Experimentally determined wall-to-suspension heat transfer coeffients in circulating fluidized beds. Prediction of the heat transfer in circulating fluidized beds without considering the influence radiation. Prediction of the heat transfer in circulating fluidized beds at elevated temperatures. Heat transfer in homogenous multiphase flows. Prediction of the heat transfer with particulate fluidization. General aspects of heat transfer in fixed and fluidized beds percolated by a gas at Re>1. References. Index

This book provides a much needed and thorough treatment of the heat transfer in agitated disperse systems. It gives predictive equations for the heat transfer in moving beds, bubbling and circulating fluidized beds, pneumatic transport in vertical tubes and particulate fluidized beds. Owing to the many different modes of activation of heat transfer, the basic approach of the book is to provide experimental evidence of the relevance of particle motion to the proximity of solid surfaces for the heat transfer observed. This has been achieved by the evaluation of experiments obtained with a newly developed pulsed light method using luminous particles.