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Author: search.filters.author.Mohanta, Hare KrishnaSubject: search.filters.subject.Particle image velocimetry (PIV)

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    Study of fluidized bed freeboard for effect of Geldart A particles shape using particle image velocimetry (PIV)
    (Elsevier, 2024-01) Mohanta, Hare Krishna; Sande, Priya Christina
    A study was carried out using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to reveal velocity vector flow fields in the freeboard region of a Geldart A fluidized bed. For the first time the effect of particle shape, was studied for three powder types, namely China clay (platelet-like), Diatomite (spherical) and Quartz (irregular). A bench-scale fluidized bed set-up of perspex glass was used for direct PIV imagining over a substantial inlet gas velocity range. Interestingly the freeboard was not found to be highly turbulent as has been reported in the case of Geldart B particles. Rather a transition regime was observed which was dominated by laminar streamlines and punctuated by short-lived eddies with life span even less than 400 μs. Bed expansion was significantly affected by particle shape. This was explained by an ‘effective cluster size’ hypothesis for the three powder types. The ‘uniformity’ of the velocity field was also quantified for each powder
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    PIV investigation on the effect of gas distributor design for fluidization of Geldart A spherical particles
    (Elsevier, 2024-06) Sande, Priya Christina; Sharma, Arvind Kumar; Mohanta, Hare Krishna
    This is a hydrodynamics study on gas distribution during fluidization of the industrially relevant Geldart A type particles. The impact of 10 different distributor designs comprising perforated distributors (pitch and orifice arrangement pattern varied) and nozzle distributors (nozzle size varied) were studied experimentally on a bench-scale unit. Particle flow homogeneity in air was determined by a novel Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) analysis of the freeboard velocity field. Over 50 PIV particle phase vector field images are presented and analysed. Bed expansion, Particle attrition with and without fines, velocity profiles with and without fines and effect of fines on bed expansion were ascertained. Best distributor design for a unit such as Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) regenerator and FCC riser were found to be 0.8 cm and 0.6 cm nozzle plates distributors respectively. Confirmation with previous study revealed a correlation between homogeneous distribution of particulate flow and lower number of turbulence zones.