Essentials of Fluidization Technology

John Grace is an Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), where he has served since 1979. Prior to that he was a faculty member at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and completed a PhD on fluidization at Cambridge University. He has published more than 590 papers, chapters and books, most of them related to the subject of the proposed book. He has chaired a number of conferences, consulted for a number of companies, and won a number of awards and honours such as the International Fluidization Award of Achievement from the Engineering Foundation, Thomas Baron Award in Fluid-Particle Systems of the AIChE, and the Particle Technology Forum Award of the AIChE. Xiaotao (Tony) Bi completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) in 1994, then worked in industry and returned to UBC in 1997 where he rose to the rank of Full Professor. He has published more than 300 papers and has supervised dozens of graduate students, mostly related to fluidization and associated multiphase systems. His research covers many areas including hydrodynamics, flow patterns and flow regimes, heat transfer, mass transfer, reactor performance testing, modeling and simulation, scaling and scale-up, commercial reactor trouble-shooting etc. covering gas-solids, liquid-solids, gas-liquid-solids bubbling, turbulent and circulating fluidized beds. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a recent winner of the AIChE Lectureship Award in Fluidization. Naoko Ellis completed a PhD on fluidization at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) in 2003. As a faculty member at UBC (recently promoted to Full Professor and currently serving as Associate head for Graduate Programs), she has been actively engaged in research and supervision of graduate students on fluidization, chemical looping, biomass utilization, bio-oil upgrading, biochar, biodiesel and sustainability, publishing in each of these areas. With Professors Grace and Bi, she taught a recent graduate course on fluidization.

1 Introduction, History and Applications
John R. Grace

2 Properties, minimum fluidization and Geldart groups
John R. Grace

3 Liquid fluidization
Renzo Di Felice and Alberto Di Renzo

4 Gas fluidization flow regimes
Xiaotao Bi

5 Experimental investigation of fluidized bed systems
Naoko Ellis

6 Computational fluid dynamics and its application to fluidization
Tingwen Li and Yupeng Xu

7 Hydrodynamics of bubbling fluidization
John Grace

8 Slug flow
John Grace

9 Turbulent fluidization
Xiaotao Bi

10 Entrainment from bubbling and turbulent beds
Farzam Fotovat

11 Standpipes and return systems, separation devices and feeders
Ted M. Knowlton and S.B. Reddy Karri

12 Circulating fluidized beds
Chengxiu Wang and Jesse Zhu

13 Operating challenges
Poupak Mehrani and Andrew Sowinski

14 Heat and mass transfer
Dening Eric Jia

15 Catalytic fluidized-bed reactors
Andrés Mahecha-Botero

16 Fluidized beds for gas-solid reactions
Jaber Shabanian and Jamal Chaouki

17 Scale-up of fluidized beds
Naoko Ellis and Andrés Mahecha-Botero

18 Baffles and aids to fluidization
Yongmin Zhang

19 Jets in fluidized beds
Cedric Briens and Jennifer McMillan

20 Downer reactors
Changning Wu and Yi Cheng

21 Spouted (and spout-fluid) beds
Norman Epstein

22 Three-phase (gas-liquid-solid) fluidization
Dominic Pjonek, Adam Donaldson and Arturo Macchi