Drying in the rotating-pulsed fluidized bed
There are particulate materials that are cohesive when wet. Although they are Geldart's group A dry powders, they show difficulties in fluidizing in a conventional fluidized bed, which could be diminished by modifying the fluidization equipment. Therefore, the objective of this work was to study the drying of cohesive particulate material using a rotating-pulsed fluidized bed. The material used in the drying study was 2-hydroxybenzoic acid because its cohesive forces are stronger when wet. The drying experiments were carried out according to the following parameters: frequency of disk (5 and 15 Hz), initial moisture content of the material (high and low) and gas temperature at 85°C. From the drying kinetic curves and visual observations during the experiments, it could be concluded that the rotating-pulsed fluidized bed is an alternative for the processing of cohesive solids that preserves the final quality of the dry solids.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Brazilian Society of Chemical Engineering
2007
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-66322007000100009 |
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