1st Edition

Handbook of Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems

Edited By Wen-Ching Yang Copyright 2003
876 Pages
by CRC Press

1868 Pages
by CRC Press

This reference details particle characterization, dynamics, manufacturing, handling, and processing for the employment of multiphase reactors, as well as procedures in reactor scale-up and design for applications in the chemical, mineral, petroleum, power, cement and pharmaceuticals industries. The authors discuss flow through fixed beds, elutriation and entrainment, gas distributor and plenum... Read more

Particle characterization and dynamics, Wen-Ching Yang

Flow through fixed beds, Wen-Ching Yang

Bubbling fluidized beds, Wen-Ching Yang

Elutriation and entrainment, Joachim Werther and Ernst-Ulrich Hartge

Effect of temperature and pressure, J.G. Yates

Gas distributor and plenum design in fluidized beds, S.B. Reddy Karri and Joachim Werther

Effect of internal tubes and baffles, Yong Jin, Fei Wei, and Yao Wang

Attrition, Joachim Werther and Jens Reppenhagen

Modelling, Thomas C. Ho

Heat transfer, John C. Chen

Mass transfer, Thomas C. Ho

General approaches to reactor design, Peijun Jiang, Fei Wei, and Liang-Shih Fan

Fluidized bed scaleup, Leon R. Glicksman

Applications for fluid catalytic cracking, Ye-Mon Chen

Applications for gasifiers and combustors, Richard A. Newby

Applications for chemical production and processing, Behzad Jazayeri

Applications for coating and granulation, Gabriel I. Tardos and Paul Mort

Applications for fluidized bed drying, Arun Mujumdar and Sakamon Devahastin

Circulating fluidized beds, John R. Grace, Hsiaotao Bi, and Mohammad Golriz

Other nonconventional fluidized beds, Wen-Ching Yang

Standpipes and nonmechanical valves, T.M. Knowlton

Cyclone separators, T.M. Knowlton

Dilute phase pneumatic conveying, George E. Klinzing

Electrostatics in pneumatic conveying, George E. Klinzing

Instrumentation and measurements, Rafal Kobylecki, Mayumi Tsukada, and Masayuki Horio

Liquid-solids fluidization, Norman Epstein

Gas-liquid-solid three-phase fluidization, Liang-Shih Fan and Guoqiang Yang

Liquid-solids separation, Shiao-Hung Chiang, Daxin He, and Yuru Feng

Biography

Wen-Ching Yang is Advisory Engineer, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of numerous journal articles, book chapters and books, he holds 11 patents and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a member of the American Chemical Society. The recipient of the Fluor Daniel Lectureship Award in Fluidization (2000) and the Dow Chemical Fluidized Processes Recognition Award (1993), Dr. Yang received the B.S. degree (1962) in chemical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, the M.S. degree (1965) in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Ph.D. degree (1968) from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.