Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Research origins |
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Notation |
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Introduction: the fluidized state |
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Single particle suspension |
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8 | (6) |
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The unhindered terminal settling velocity, particle drag in the creeping flow and inertial regimes, drag coefficient, general relations, dimensionless relations |
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Fluid flow through particle beds |
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14 | (17) |
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Fluid pressure loss in packed beds: tube flow analoies for viscous and inertial regimes, the Ergun equation; Fluid pressure loss in expanded particle beds: revised tube-flow analogies, tortuosity, inertial regime friction factor; Relation of particle drag to pressure loss, the fully expanded bed limit, general relations, experiments in expanded particle beds |
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31 | (11) |
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The unrecoverable pressure loss for fluidization, steady-state expansion of homogeneous beds, derivation of the Richardson-Zaki law for the viscous and inertial regimes, general constitutive relations; Primary forces on a fluidized particle, buoyancy and drag, general relations |
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A kinematic description of unsteady-state behaviour |
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42 | (10) |
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Response of homogeneous beds to fluid flux changes: interface stability, bed surface response, gravitational instabilities, the kinematic-shock and kinematic-wave velocities, limitations of the kinematic model |
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A criterion for the stability of the homogeneously fluidized state |
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52 | (7) |
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Compressible fluid analogy for the particle phase, the dynamic-wave velocity, an explicit form for the Wallis stability criterion |
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The first equations of change for fluidization |
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59 | (11) |
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A general formulation of the equations of change, the linearized particle-phase equations, the travelling-wave solution, instability of the homogeneously fluidized state |
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70 | (15) |
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The primary interaction forces; fluid-dynamic elasticity of the particle phase, the particle bed model, the particle phase equations for gas fluidization; Stability analysis, the linearized particle phase equations, the stability criterion |
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Single-phase model predictions and experimental observations |
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85 | (21) |
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Powder classification for fluidization by a specified fluid: stability map for ambient air fluidization; The minimum bubbling point, sources of error, experimental measurements and model predictions; The kinematic and dynamic wave velocities: experimental measurements and model predictions |
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106 | (20) |
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Behaviour spectra for fluidization, pertubation propagation velocity and amplitude growth rate, fluidization quality criteria, the fluidization quality map, homogeneous fluidization |
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The two-phase particle bed model |
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126 | (7) |
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The two-phase particle bed model: the combined momentum equation, the two-phase dynamic wave velocity and stability criterion |
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Two-phase model predictions and experimental observations |
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133 | (11) |
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Comparison of one- and two-phase models, liquid-fluidized systems, stability map for ambinent water fluidization, indeterminate stability |
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144 | (24) |
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Cold-model simulations, the dimensionless equations of change, one- and three-dimensional scaling relations for fluidization, example applications, experimental verifications; Fluidization quality characterization, a generalized powder classification map, fluid pressure fluctuations |
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168 | (20) |
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Large perturbations in fluidized beds, bubbles as `shocks', derivation of the jump conditions, the shock velocity, criteria for shock stability, compatibility with linear analysis, void fraction jump magnitude, verification of the two-phase theory for gas fluidization, the metastable state, bed collapse at minimum bubbling, effect of fluid pressure, experimental verifications, effect of a fluid pressure jump |
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188 | (21) |
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Solid and fluid slugs, square- and round-nosed fluid slugs; Fluid-dynamic controlled behaviour: slug velocities, kinetic and potential energy requirements, fluid pressure loss; Particle-particle and particle-wall frictional effects: angle of internal friction, solid slug length, bed surface displacement and oscillation frequency; Experimental verifications |
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Two-dimensional simulation |
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The two-phase, two-dimensional particle bed model: primary force interactions, fluid-dynamic elasticity of the particle phase, the equations of change, boundary and initial conditions; Numerical simulations: expansion and contraction of liquid-fluidized beds, response to distributor-induced perturbations, fluidization quality matching |
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Author index |
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Subject index |
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