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Title

Design, Construction, and Testing of a Fluidized Bed Reactor

Authors

Tanner Iszler, Montana Tech of the University of MontanaFollow
Dario Prieto, Montana Tech of the University of MontanaFollow
Jerome Downey, Montana Tech of the University of Montana

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Description

The fluidization behavior of a solid particle bed is described by the Navier-Stokes equation. Fluidization occurs when an upward flow of fluid is used to suspend and mobilize solid particles.

Sand was used for the fixed bed and air was used for fluidization. During testing, the flow of air was manually adjusted until fluidization of the sand bed was observed.

Publication Date

Summer 2017

Comments

Research was sponsored by the Army Reseach Laboratory and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-15-2-0020. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Laboratory or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation herein.

Recommended Citation

Iszler, Tanner; Prieto, Dario; and Downey, Jerome, "Design, Construction, and Testing of a Fluidized Bed Reactor" (2017). 2017 Undergraduate Research. 9.
https://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/urp_aug_2017/9