화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.68, 274-281, December, 2018
DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2018.07.054  Export Citation
Characterization of flow properties of pharmaceutical pellets in draft tube conical spout-fluid beds
Mohammad Foroughi-Dahr, Rahmat Sotudeh-Gharebagh†, and Navid Mostoufi
  • Multiphase Systems Research Lab, School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 11365/4563, Tehran, Iran
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Experimental studies of the hydrodynamic performance of the draft tube conical spout-fluid bed (DCSF) were conducted using pharmaceutical pellets. The experiments were carried out in a DCSF consisted of two sections: (a) a conical section with the cross section of 120 mm × 250 mm and the height of 270 mm, (b) a cylindrical section with the diameter of 250 mm and the height of 600 mm. The flow characteristics of solids were investigated with a high speed camera and a pezoresistive absolute pressure transducer simultaneously. These characteristics revealed different flow regimes in the DCSF: packed bed at low gas velocities, fluidized bed in draft tube at higher gas velocities until minimum spouting, and spouted bed. The stable spouting was identified by the presence of two dominant frequencies of the power spectrum density of pressure fluctuation signature: (i) the frequency band 6?9 Hz and (ii) the frequency band 12?15 Hz. The pressure drops across the draft tube as well as the annulus measured in order to better recognize the flow structure in the DCSF. It was observed that the pressure drop across the draft tube, the pressure drop across the annulus, and the minimum spouting velocity increase with the increase in the height of draft tube and distance of the entrainment zone, but with the decrease in the distributor hole pitch. Finally, this study provided novel insight into the hydrodynamic of DCSF, particularly minimum spouting and stable spouting in the DCSF which contains valuable information for process design and scale-up of spouted bed equipment.
Keywords:Conical spout-fluid bed;Pharmaceutical pellets;Particle coating;Pressure drop;Minimum spouting
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