Download or read book Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Three-phase Fluidized Beds written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hydrodynamics of three-phase (gas-liquid-solid) fluidized beds has been studied in two columns of 7.62 and 15.2 cm in dia. The minimum gas and liquid velocities necessary to fluidize a bed were determined as a function of the particle size and density and the liquid viscosity; no effect of the initial bed height or column diameter was found. An electroconductivity technique was used to measure local concentrations of solid, liquid, and gas in the fluidized bed; these profiles were fitted using the error function. Overall solid holdup data were combined with over 1350 points from the literature to yield a dimensional correlation involving the physical parameters of the systems studied.