Solid Flow in Jet Spouted Beds

Filming equipment combined with an image treatment program has been used to study the positions of the particles in the jet spouted bed (or dilute spouted bed in conical contactor). The properties determined were the density functions for distribution of particle trajectories and of their maximum heights in the bed and local bed voidages. The spout geometry has been determined for this regime. By extending the experimental study to systems with different values of contactor inlet diameter, stagnant bed height, and relative air velocity with respect to the minimum needed for the jet spouted bed, the effect of these variables on the properties that describe the solid flow has been analyzed.