The performance of a fluidized particulate feeding system with multiple discharge sections



Título del documento: The performance of a fluidized particulate feeding system with multiple discharge sections
Revue: Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000312185
ISSN: 1678-5878
Autores: 1

Instituciones: 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Nucleo de Engenharia Termica e Fluidos, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Ene-Mar
Volumen: 25
Número: 1
Paginación: 46-52
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés A particulate feeding system based on air flluidization principles was developed at the Thermal and Fluids Engineering Group at EESC-USP. The system is basically formed of a cylindrical chamber comprising two levels of fluid bed distributor plates. The performance of the system was addressed. Repeatability experiments were performed in order to check out for the possibility of solids feeding control through a sphere valve which controls the air feed rate. Silica sand particles of three different size were used, with mean diameters of 152, 287 and 484 µm. Experiments showed that the total particulate discharge depends on the primary air feeding rate, the distance between the exit of the feeding hopper and the primary air distributor plate, and the particulate diameter, but independs on the secondary air feeding rate. The system was observed to be of difficult control and showed poor repeatability. However, the system was found to be an excellent device for distributing the flow of solids throughout several discharge sections. For the operational conditions considered and air volumetric flowrates above 3×10-3 m³/s the deviation on the particulate mass flowrate through a given discharge section related to the average value through the four sections of the injector was always below 5 %
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Dinámica de fluidos,
Termodinámica y física estadística,
Fluidización,
Sistemas de alimentación,
Desempeño,
Alimentación multipuntos,
Material particulado
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Fluid dynamics,
Thermodynamics and statistical physics,
Fluidization,
Feeding systems,
Performance,
Multipoint feeding,
Particulated matter
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