Fluidization engineering /
Daizo Kunii and Octave Levenspiel.
- 2nd ed.
- Boston ; London : Butterworths, 1991.
- xxvii, 491 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + hbk.
- Butterworth-Heinemann series in chemical engineering .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Industrial applications of fluidized beds -- Fluidization and mapping of regimes -- The dense bed: Distributors, gas jets and pumping power -- Bubbles in dense beds -- Bubbling fluidized beds -- Entrainment and elutriation from fluidized beds -- High-velocity fluidization -- Solid movement: Mixing, segregation and staging -- Gas dispersion and gas interchange in bubbling beds -- Particle-to-gas mass and heat transfer -- Conversion of gas in catalytic reactions -- Heat transfer between fluidized beds and surfaces -- The RTD and size distribution of solids in fluidized beds -- Circulation systems -- Design for physical operations -- Design of catalytic reactors -- The design of noncatalytic gas-solid reactors.