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Optimization of Operations and Processes in Chemical Engineering Involving Fluidization
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Optimization of Operations and Processes in Chemical Engineering Involving Fluidization

A special issue of ChemEngineering (ISSN 2305-7084).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 6531

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Dr. Cataldo De Blasio

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Faculty of Science and Engineering, Energy Technology, Åbo Akademi University, 20500 Turku, Finland
Interests: energy and process technology; chemical engineering; biomass gasification
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Special Issue Information

Dear researchers and colleagues,

I welcome you to this special issue built around the general topic “Optimization of operations and processes in Chemical Engineering involving Fluidization”. The special issue is meant to contribute to our scientific knowledge in regards to technologies for which the main chemical/physical aspect is Fluidization. This phenomenon is central to many processes; just to mention some of them, we have: Fluidized Bed Combustion, Flue Gas Desulfurization, Biogas Production, Mineral Sorting, Catalytic Fluidized Beds, Particles’ coating, Metallurgy.

More generally and always centered on the topic of Fluidization, the issue would include Multi-Phase Systems (not only gas-liquid-solid), Mixing and Resuspension, Nano Fluids, CFD, Computer Aided Process Engineering, Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis. In addition to more theoretical Mass Transport aspects like intramolecular forces, surface tension, electrical interactions and biotechnological processes.

Emphasis will be given to contributions showing tangible evidence of added value in regards to the most recent literature. The issue welcomes investigations done by means of highly accurate instrumentations like, for instance, Electrical Resistance Tomography, Radioactive Particle Tracking, Laser Diffraction and related.

Prof. Cataldo De Blasio
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Fluidization
  • Process intensification
  • Particulate Systems
  • Catalytic Reactors
  • Dissolution
  • Nanomaterials
  • Biotechnology
  • Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
  • Tomography
  • Particle Tracking
  • Diffractometry
  • Laser
  • Particle Interactions
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Z-potential

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Comparison of the Fluidized State Stability from Radioactive Particle Tracking Results
by Gabriel Salierno, Anton Gradišek, Mauricio Maestri, Julia Picabea, Miryan Cassanello, Cataldo De Blasio, María Angélica Cardona, Daniel Hojman and Héctor Somacal
ChemEngineering 2021, 5(4), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5040065 - 01 Oct 2021
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Currently, various industrial processes are carried out in fluidized bed reactors. Knowing its internal dynamics is fundamental for the intensification of these processes. This work assesses the motion of fluidized calcium alginate spheres under the influence of an upward fluid flow within a [...] Read more.
Currently, various industrial processes are carried out in fluidized bed reactors. Knowing its internal dynamics is fundamental for the intensification of these processes. This work assesses the motion of fluidized calcium alginate spheres under the influence of an upward fluid flow within a 1.2 m high and 0.1 m inner diameter acrylic column. The liquid–solid fluidized bed was compared with a gas–liquid–solid fluidized bed operation mode in terms of mixing behavior. The radioactive particle tracking technique is a proper methodology to study the internal dynamics of these kinds of equipment. Data gathered were analyzed with Shannon entropy as a dynamic mixing measure. Mixing times were found to be between 1 and 2.5 seconds for both fluidization modes. The liquid–solid fluidized bed presents a rather smooth mixing time profile along the column. On the other hand, the gas–liquid–solid fluidized bed showed high sensitivity of entropy production with height, reaching a sharp tendency break at the second quartile of the column. The Glansdorff–Prigogine stability measure can accurately capture flow regime transitions of the gas–liquid–solid fluidized bed, allowing it to be used to construct reliable operative windows for fluidization equipment. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization of Operations and Processes in Chemical Engineering Involving Fluidization)
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Design and Investigation of a 3D-Printed Micro-Fluidized Bed
by Yi Zhang, Kheng-Lim Goh, Yuen-Ling Ng, Yvonne Chow and Vladimir Zivkovic
ChemEngineering 2021, 5(3), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5030062 - 13 Sep 2021
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Micro-fluidized bed has aroused much attention due to its low-cost, intensified-process and fast-screening properties. In this paper, a micro-fluidized bed (15 × 15 mm in cross-section) was designed and fabricated with the use of the stereolithography printing technique, for the investigation of bubbles’ [...] Read more.
Micro-fluidized bed has aroused much attention due to its low-cost, intensified-process and fast-screening properties. In this paper, a micro-fluidized bed (15 × 15 mm in cross-section) was designed and fabricated with the use of the stereolithography printing technique, for the investigation of bubbles’ hydrodynamics and comparison of the solids (3D-printed particles VS fungal pellets) fluidization characteristics. In a liquid–gas system, bubble flow regime started from mono-dispersed homogeneous regime, followed by poly-dispersed homogeneous regime, transition bubble regime and heterogeneous bubble regime with increasing gas flowrates from 3.7 mL/min to 32.7 mL/min. The impacts from operating parameters such as gas flowrate, superficial liquid velocity and gas sparger size on bubble size, velocity and volume fraction have been summarized. In liquid–solid fluidization, different solid fluidization regimes for both particles bed and pellets bed were identified. From the bed expansion results, much higher Umf of 7.8 mm/s from pellets fluidization was observed compared that of 2.3 mm/s in particles fluidization, because the hyphal structures of fungal pellets increased surface friction but also tended to agglomerate. The similar R–Z exponent n (5.7 and 5.5 for pellets and particles, respectively) between pellets and particles was explained by the same solid diameter, but much higher Ut of 436 µm/s in particles bed than that of 196 µm/s in pellets bed is a consequence of the higher density of solid particles. This paper gives insights on the development of MFB and its potential in solid processing. Full article
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