Download or read book Transient 3 dimensional Behavior of Gas solid Fluidization Measured Using Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography ECVT written by Bing Du and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography ECVT Based Imaging and Velocimetry for Two phase Flow Measurements written by Shah Mahmud Hasan Chowdhury and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (ECVT) refers to three-dimensional (3D) imaging of flow media exhibiting two or more material phases in a region of interest (RoI) based on electric permittivity variations. Such multiphase flows are commonly found in industrial settings such as gas-oil-water flow in oil pipelines, gas-solid flows in various chemical processes etc. An ECVT sensor is comprised of metal electrodes flush mounted on an insulating pipe wall surrounding the RoI. They are arranged in a multi-layer pattern being able to capture the 3D variation in permittivity, i.e. both the cross-sectional (xy) and the axial (z) variation. Because of the wall, there exists only capacitive coupling between the electrodes and the RoI, which makes the modality non-intrusive in nature. Other advantages include conformal sensor shape, cheaper electronics due to low-frequency operation, and fast acquisition rate suitable for capturing fast moving flows. The mutual capacitance measured among the electrodes is used, with the aid of an appropriate image reconstruction algorithm, to reconstruct a 3D image of the permittivity distribution corresponding to the actual material distribution in the RoI. A limitation of ECVT is the poor image resolution compared to other imaging modalities, e.g. X-ray, which originates from the ill-posed nature of the inverse problem associated with ECVT. Flow velocimetry has been a topic of interest for decades. A lot of information about a flow can be derived if the velocity profile can be determined. Although ECVT can perform flow imaging, there has not been a convenient way of determining the velocity profile. Previous efforts include cross-correlating two successive images, which is computationally intensive and not robust as cross-correlation works in very simple cases only. Moreover, errors incurred in image reconstruction are compounded with cross-correlation which makes the situation worse. In this regard, a different velocimetry method is documented in this dissertation which is free of cross-correlation. The method exploits a mapping between the moving flow and the temporal change in capacitance. It formulates a new forward problem, which can be solved using the conventional image reconstruction methods used for imaging. This method overcomes the limitations with the previous cross-correlation based approach, however, it has its own shortcoming. It is more challenging than imaging as it deals with three unknowns, i.e. the velocity components in three axial directions, as opposed to only one unknown for imaging which is the permittivity. The number of known variables is, however, only one for both problems which is the capacitance. This difficulty often degrade the performance of velocimetry as compared to imaging in similar cases, which is documented in terms of simulation results. In addition to that, experimental results are included with various data conditioning methods such as data smoothing, outlier removal etc. Another contribution documented in this dissertation is the electronic scanning for ECVT, which aims improving the image resolution. For electronic scanning, a high electrode density sensor is employed as compared to a conventional sensor. Then, the electrode segments are connected and reconfigured dynamically to mimic physical rotation and displacement of the sensor on its axis. It is shown that electronic scanning is capable of increasing the resolution over conventional ECVT, however, at the cost of additional acquisition time because of the scanning. In this regard, a number of scanning strategies are described featuring different synthetic electrode shapes, and the optimum one is pointed out considering different acquisition times. Also, the strategies are implemented in SPICE to evaluate their feasibility in circuit aspects, e.g. signal to noise ratio (SNR), as compared to a conventional ECVT sensor. The conclusions derived from this analysis would serve future hardware implementation and testing of electronic scanning with adaptive ECVT sensors. Lastly, a study is included for volume fraction estimation of a two-phase flow based on ECVT capacitance data. The estimated volume fraction is intended to be used as a stopping criterion for an iterative image reconstruction method used throughout this dissertation.

Download or read book Chemical Reactor Modeling written by Hugo A. Jakobsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 1589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical Reactor Modeling closes the gap between Chemical Reaction Engineering and Fluid Mechanics. The second edition consists of two volumes: Volume 1: Fundamentals. Volume 2: Chemical Engineering Applications In volume 1 most of the fundamental theory is presented. A few numerical model simulation application examples are given to elucidate the link between theory and applications. In volume 2 the chemical reactor equipment to be modeled are described. Several engineering models are introduced and discussed. A survey of the frequently used numerical methods, algorithms and schemes is provided. A few practical engineering applications of the modeling tools are presented and discussed. The working principles of several experimental techniques employed in order to get data for model validation are outlined. The monograph is based on lectures regularly taught in the fourth and fifth years graduate courses in transport phenomena and chemical reactor modeling and in a post graduate course in modern reactor modeling at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Trondheim, Norway. The objective of the book is to present the fundamentals of the single-fluid and multi-fluid models for the analysis of single and multiphase reactive flows in chemical reactors with a chemical reactor engineering rather than mathematical bias. Organized into 13 chapters, it combines theoretical aspects and practical applications and covers some of the recent research in several areas of chemical reactor engineering. This book contains a survey of the modern literature in the field of chemical reactor modeling.

Download or read book Multiphase Flow Phenomena And Applications Memorial Volume In Honor Of Gad Hetsroni written by Gennady Ziskind and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to a very special person, Professor Gad Hetsroni (1934-2015). His towering figure was familiar to researchers in heat transfer and multiphase flow all over the world. He was the founding Editor of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow and the person who defined and promoted the discipline around the journal. The unique community formed in this field during his lifetime gathers every three years for a major conference, the International Conference on Multiphase Flow, that most recent was held in May 2016 in Florence, Italy. This was the first time ever Gad did not attend ICMF. Friends and colleagues from many countries came to Florence to present their personal tributes and scientific papers honoring Gad. Reviewed and edited tributes and scientific papers dedicated to Gad from these memorial sessions comprise the core content of this memorial volume; certain persons who could not participate in the ICMF made later contributions.

Download or read book Electromagnetic Mixing Formulas and Applications written by A. H. Sihvola and published by IET. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the homogenization principles and mixing rules for determining the macroscopic dielectric and magnetic properties of different types of media. Sihvola (electromagnetics, Helsinki U. of Technology, Finland) discusses subjects such as the characteristic differences between a mixture and its parts, and ways that mixing results are applied to different materials in geophysics and biology. Distributed by INSPEC. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Fluidization written by J. F. Davidson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1978-04-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Circulating Fluidized Beds written by J.R. Grace and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s there has been an explosion of industrial and academic interest in circulating fluidized beds. In part, the attention has arisen due to the environmental advantages associated with CFB (circulating . fluidized bed) combustion systems, the incorporation of riser reactors employing cir culating fluidized bed technology in petroleum refineries for fluid catalytic cracking and, to a lesser extent, the successes of CFB technology for calcina tion reactions and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. In part, it was also the case that too much attention had been devoted to bubbling fluidized beds and it was time to move on to more complex and more advantageous regime,S of operation. Since 1980 a number of CFB processes have been commercialized. There have been five successful International Circulating Fluidized Bed Confer ences beginning in 1985, the most recent taking place in Beijing in May 1996. In addition, we have witnessed a host of other papers on CFB funda mentals and applications in journals and other archival publications. There have also been several review papers and books on specific CFB topics. However, there has been no comprehensive book reviewing the field and attempting to provide an overview of both fundamentals and applications. The purpose of this book is to fill this vacuum.

Download or read book Fluidized Bed Technologies for Near Zero Emission Combustion and Gasification written by Fabrizio Scala and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 1091 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluidized bed (FB) combustion and gasification are advanced techniques for fuel flexible, high efficiency and low emission conversion. Fuels are combusted or gasified as a fluidized bed suspended by jets with sorbents that remove harmful emissions such as SOx. CO2 capture can also be incorporated. Fluidized bed technologies for near-zero emission combustion and gasification provides an overview of established FB technologies while also detailing recent developments in the field.Part one, an introductory section, reviews fluidization science and FB technologies and includes chapters on particle characterization and behaviour, properties of stationary and circulating fluidized beds, heat and mass transfer and attrition in FB combustion and gasification systems. Part two expands on this introduction to explore the fundamentals of FB combustion and gasification including the conversion of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, pollutant emission and reactor design and scale up. Part three highlights recent advances in a variety of FB combustion and gasification technologies before part four moves on to focus on emerging CO2 capture technologies. Finally, part five explores other applications of FB technology including (FB) petroleum refining and chemical production.Fluidized bed technologies for near-zero emission combustion and gasification is a technical resource for power plant operators, industrial engineers working with fluidized bed combustion and gasification systems and researchers, scientists and academics in the field. - Examines the fundamentals of fluidized bed (FB) technologies, including the conversion of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels - Explores recent advances in a variety of technologies such as pressurized FB combustion, and the measurement, monitoring and control of FB combustion and gasification - Discusses emerging technologies and examines applications of FB in other processes

Download or read book Multiphase Flow and Fluidization written by Dimitri Gidaspow and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful as a reference for engineers in industry and as an advanced level text for graduate engineering students, Multiphase Flow and Fluidization takes the reader beyond the theoretical to demonstrate how multiphase flow equations can be used to provide applied, practical, predictive solutions to industrial fluidization problems. Written to help advance progress in the emerging science of multiphase flow, this book begins with the development of the conservation laws and moves on through kinetic theory, clarifying many physical concepts (such as particulate viscosity and solids pressure) and introducing the new dependent variable--the volume fraction of the dispersed phase. Exercises at the end of each chapterare provided for further study and lead into applications not covered in the text itself. - Treats fluidization as a branch of transport phenomena - Demonstrates how to do transient, multidimensional simulation of multiphase processes - The first book to apply kinetic theory to flow of particulates - Is the only book to discuss numerical stability of multiphase equations and whether or not such equations are well-posed - Explains the origin of bubbles and the concept of critical granular flow - Presents clearly written exercises at the end of each chapter to facilitate understanding and further study

Download or read book Industrial Tomography written by Mi Wang and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Tomography: Systems and Applications, Second Edition thoroughly explores the important techniques of industrial tomography, also discusses image reconstruction, systems, and applications. This book presents complex processes, including the way three-dimensional imaging is used to create multiple cross-sections, and how computer software helps monitor flows, filtering, mixing, drying processes, and chemical reactions inside vessels and pipelines. This book is suitable for materials scientists and engineers and applied physicists working in the photonics and optoelectronics industry or in the applications industries. - Provides a comprehensive discussion on the different formats of tomography, including advances in visualization and data fusion - Includes an excellent overview of image reconstruction using a wide range of applications - Presents a comprehensive discussion of tomography systems and their applications in a wide variety of industrial processes

Download or read book Characterization and Properties of Petroleum Fractions written by M. R. Riazi and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three chapters of this book deal with application of methods presented in previous chapters to estimate various thermodynamic, physical, and transport properties of petroleum fractions. In this chapter, various methods for prediction of physical and thermodynamic properties of pure hydrocarbons and their mixtures, petroleum fractions, crude oils, natural gases, and reservoir fluids are presented. As it was discussed in Chapters 5 and 6, properties of gases may be estimated more accurately than properties of liquids. Theoretical methods of Chapters 5 and 6 for estimation of thermophysical properties generally can be applied to both liquids and gases; however, more accurate properties can be predicted through empirical correlations particularly developed for liquids. When these correlations are developed with some theoretical basis, they are more accurate and have wider range of applications. In this chapter some of these semitheoretical correlations are presented. Methods presented in Chapters 5 and 6 can be used to estimate properties such as density, enthalpy, heat capacity, heat of vaporization, and vapor pressure. Characterization methods of Chapters 2-4 are used to determine the input parameters needed for various predictive methods. One important part of this chapter is prediction of vapor pressure that is needed for vapor-liquid equilibrium calculations of Chapter 9.

Download or read book Handbook of Fluidization and Fluid Particle Systems written by Wen-Ching Yang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 design in fluidized beds, effect of internal tubes and baffles, general approaches to reactor design, applications for gasifiers and combustors, dilute phase pneumatic conveying, and applications for chemical production and processing. This is a valuable guide for chemists and engineers to use in their day-to-day work.

Download or read book Handbook of Conveying and Handling of Particulate Solids written by A. Levy and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-10-22 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents comprehensive coverage of the technology for conveying and handling particulate solids. Each chapter covers a different topic and contains both fundamentals and applications. Usually, each chapter, or a topic within a chapter, starts with one of the review papers. Chapter 1 covers the characterization of the particulate materials. Chapter 2 covers the behaviour of particulate materials during storage, and presents recent developments in storage and feeders design and performance. Chapter 3 presents fundamental studies of particulate flow, while Chapters 4 and 5 present transport solutions, and the pitfalls of pneumatic, slurry, and capsule conveying. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 cover both the fundamentals and development of processes for particulate solids, starting from fluidisation and drying, segregation and mixing, and size-reduction and enlargement. Chapter 9 presents environmental aspects and the classification of the particulate materials after they have been handled by one of the above-mentioned processes. Finally, Chapter 10 covers applications and developments of measurement techniques that are the heart of the analysis of any conveying or handling system.

Download or read book Mesoscale Modeling in Chemical Engineering Part I written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing Mesoscales of Multiscale Problems in Chemical Engineering, a volume in the Advances in Chemical Engineering series provides readers with the personal views of recognized authorities who present assessments of the state-of-the-art in the field and help readers develop an understanding of its further evolution. Subjects covered in the book are not limited to the classical chemical engineering disciplines. Contributions connecting chemical engineering to related scientific fields, either providing a fundamental basis or introducing new concepts and tools, are encouraged. This volume aims to create a balance between well developed areas such as process industry, transformation of materials, energy, and environmental issues, and areas where applications of chemical engineering are more recent or emerging. Contains reviews by leading authorities in their respective areas Provides up-to-date reviews of the latest techniques in the modeling of catalytic processes Includes a broad mix of US and European authors, as well as academic/industrial/research institute perspectives Provides discussions on the connections between computation and experimental methods

Download or read book Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Nanofluid Flow in Microchannels written by Davood Domairry Ganji and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Nanofluid Flow in Microchannels: Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer focuses on the numerical simulation of passive techniques, and also covers the applications of external forces on heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids in microchannels. Economic and environmental incentives have increased efforts to reduce energy consumption. Heat transfer enhancement, augmentation, or intensification are the terms that many scientists employ in their efforts in energy consumption reduction. These can be divided into (a) active techniques which require external forces such as magnetic force, and (b) passive techniques which do not require external forces, including geometry refinement and fluid additives. - Gives readers the knowledge they need to be able to simulate nanofluids in a wide range of microchannels and optimise their heat transfer characteristics - Contains real-life examples, mathematical procedures, numerical algorithms, and codes to allow readers to easily reproduce the methodologies covered, and to understand how they can be applied in practice - Presents novel applications for heat exchange systems, such as entropy generation minimization and figures of merit, allowing readers to optimize the techniques they use - Focuses on the numerical simulation of passive techniques, and also covers the applications of external forces on heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids in microchannels

Download or read book Periodic Operation of Chemical Reactors written by P. L. Silveston and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive review, prepared by 24 experts, many of whom are pioneers of the subject, brings together in one place over 40 years of research in this unique publication. This book will assist R & D specialists, research chemists, chemical engineers or process managers harnessing periodic operations to improve their process plant performance. Periodic Operation of Reactors covers process fundamentals, research equipment and methods and provides "the state of the art" for the periodic operation of many industrially important catalytic reactions. Emphasis is on experimental results, modeling and simulation. Combined reaction and separation are dealt with, including simulated moving bed chromatographic, pressure and temperature swing and circulating bed reactors. Thus, Periodic Operation of Reactors offers readers a single comprehensive source for the broad and diverse new subject. This exciting new publication is a "must have" for any professional working in chemical process research and development. - A comprehensive reference on the fundamentals, development and applications of periodic operation - Contributors and editors include the pioneers of the subject as well as the leading researchers in the field - Covers both fundamentals and the state of the art for each operation scenario, and brings all types of periodic operation together in a single volume - Discussion is focused on experimental results rather than theoretical ones; provides a rich source of experimental data, plus process models - Accompanying website with modelling data

Download or read book Dynamic Flowsheet Simulation of Solids Processes written by Stefan Heinrich and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the latest advances in flowsheet simulation of solids processes, focusing on the dynamic behaviour of systems with interconnected solids processing units, but also covering stationary simulation. The book includes the modelling of solids processing units, for example for comminution, sifting and particle formulation and also for reaction systems. Furthermore, it examines new approaches for the description of solids and their property distributions and for the mathematical treatment of flowsheets with multivariate population balances.