Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Common nomenclature
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Initiation of spouting
- 3 Empirical and analytical hydrodynamics
- 4 Computational fluid dynamic modeling of spouted beds
- 5 Conical spouted beds
- 6 Hydrodynamics of spout-fluid beds
- 7 Spouted and spout-fluid beds with draft tubes
- 8 Particle mixing and segregation
- 9 Heat and mass transfer
- 10 Powder–particle spouted beds
- 11 Drying of particulate solids
- 12 Drying of solutions, slurries, and pastes
- 13 Granulation and particle coating
- 14 The Wurster coater
- 15 Gasification, pyrolysis, and combustion
- 16 Spouted bed electrochemical reactors
- 17 Scaleup, slot-rectangular, and multiple spouting
- 18 Mechanical spouting
- 19 Catalytic reactors and their modeling
- 20 Liquid and liquid–gas spouting of solids
- Index
- References
11 - Drying of particulate solids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Common nomenclature
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Initiation of spouting
- 3 Empirical and analytical hydrodynamics
- 4 Computational fluid dynamic modeling of spouted beds
- 5 Conical spouted beds
- 6 Hydrodynamics of spout-fluid beds
- 7 Spouted and spout-fluid beds with draft tubes
- 8 Particle mixing and segregation
- 9 Heat and mass transfer
- 10 Powder–particle spouted beds
- 11 Drying of particulate solids
- 12 Drying of solutions, slurries, and pastes
- 13 Granulation and particle coating
- 14 The Wurster coater
- 15 Gasification, pyrolysis, and combustion
- 16 Spouted bed electrochemical reactors
- 17 Scaleup, slot-rectangular, and multiple spouting
- 18 Mechanical spouting
- 19 Catalytic reactors and their modeling
- 20 Liquid and liquid–gas spouting of solids
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on analyzing the design of spouted bed dryers for particulate solids whose drying curve is characterized by the falling rate period only (Figure 11.1a), as well as those displaying both constant and falling-rate drying periods (Figure 11.1.b).
Because compromise among costs, efficiency, product quality, and a clean environment is required in the design and operation of any process equipment, simulation and optimization of the drying process are the best ways to obtain the appropriate dimensions and operating conditions for a dryer and its ancillary equipment. This chapter starts with a brief review of recent developments in the drying of particulate solids in spouted beds (SBs). A concise analysis of various possible dryer design models follows. Three different model levels, which have been used for modeling SB drying of particulate solids, are considered.
Various spouted bed dryers for particulate solids
The SB technique, originally developed by Mathur and Gishler for drying wheat, has found numerous applications, not only for drying of particulate solids, but also in combined operations, such as drying–powdering, drying–granulation, drying–coating, and drying–extraction. Therefore this chapter also provides information for the design of such combined operations, which are considered elsewhere in this book.
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- Spouted and Spout-Fluid BedsFundamentals and Applications, pp. 187 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010