Characteristic research of regeneration process of particulate filter medium in vibrated fluidized bed

The vibrational fluidized bed is innovatively adopted to regenerate the particulate filter medium for the purification of crude syn-thesis gas from the coal gasification process.Characteristic research of vibrated fluidized beds during dust-containing particulate filter medium regeneration has been carried out.The ideal transport model of particulate filter medium on the distributor is estab-lished and verified by using experiments.The mean residence time of the particulate filter medium can be reduced by 72%from 5.5 to 1.5 min with an increase in the working frequency from 50 to 60 Hz.The thickness of the bed layer is linearly increased with the feeding rate of the particulate filter medium under ideal working conditions.The resistance models of the fluidizing air are built up and validated,and they can be used to calculate the pressure drop of the static bed layer of the particulate filter medium on the flu-idizing air distributor,which is the maximum value of the dynamic bed layer with the same thickness.The fluidizing air makes the mean residence time of the particulate filter medium decrease by 50%and reduces the difference in the particulate mean residence time under different feeding-rate conditions.The regeneration effect of dust-containing filter medium particles in a vibrated fluidized bed is evaluated.Fluidizing air with superficial velocity ranging from 0 to 0.6~0.9 m·s-1 makes the regeneration efficiency increase from 29.41%to 70.59~88.24%.This article provides a reference for the industrial application of a vibrated fluidized bed for the par-ticulate filter medium recycling system.

Cooling of Granules in Vibrating, Suspended Bed: Engineering Simulation

Here we suggest an algorithm for calculation of the process parameters and design of a vertical cooler with inclined, gas-permeable blades and with a vibrating, suspended layer of granules on them (Vibrating Fluidized Bed—VFB). The algorithm is based on the use of the equations of heat and material balance, taking into account the influx of moisture into the layer with cold air and dust—as a carryover. Mode entrainment of dust particles and moisture from the VFB is described by using empirical formulas and Π-theorem. To calculate the cooling time of granules a model of the dynamics of a variable mass VFB was built, which linked the geometrical and physical process parameters to a single dependency. An example showed that mass flow of granules of 248 kg/h and a volume flow of air of 646 m3/h with temperature of 30℃ to cool the zeolite granules from 110℃ to 42℃ for 49 s required a vertical apparatus of rectangular shape with four chambers and with volume of 0.2 m3. A comparative analysis of technological parameters of the projected cooler with the parameters of typical industrial apparatuses showed that for all indicators: the cooling time of granules, the flow rate of gas (air) and the heat flow, a 4-chambered, vertical apparatus of rectangular shape with VFB was the most effective.

Influence of bubbles on the segregated stability of fine coal in a vibrated dense medium gas-solid fluidized bed

In this paper,the variation of bubble size and number in the separation process of vibrated fluidized bed as well as the influence of bubble movement on the axial distribution of fine coal in different positions of the bed were studied.The result revealed that the size and number of bubbles is correlated with the fine coal separation effect in the separation process.When the bed is in a uniform and stable fluidized state,the size of bubbles in the separation process was in the range of 1-2.5 cm and the number of bubbles was reduced by nearly 50%,which is helpful to promote the stratification and segregation of fine coal.Thereby,after separation,the ash content of refined coal products of anthracite and 1/3 coking coal was reduced to 12.1% and 23.7% respectively,and the content of refined coal was up to 42.5% and 68.5% respectively,which show that the vibrated fluidized bed has a good separation performance,and can separate efficiently the coal of size−6+1 mm.

Progress in developments of dry coal beneficiation

China’s energy supply heavily relies on coal and China’s coal resource and water resource has a reverse distribution.The problem of water shortages restricts the applications of wet coal beneficiation technologies in drought regions.The present situation highlights the significance and urgency of developing dry beneficiation technologies of coal.Besides,other countries that produce large amounts of coal also encounter serious problem of lack of water for coal beneficiation,such as American,Australia,Canada,South Africa,Turkey and India.Thus,dry coal beneficiation becomes the research hot-points in the field of coal cleaning worldwide in recent years.This paper systematically reviewed the promising research efforts on dry coal beneficiation reported in literature in last 5 years and discussed the progress in developments of dry coal beneficiation worldwide.Finally,we also elaborated the prospects and the challenges of the development of dry coal beneficiation.

WaveBehaviorofVibratingFluidizedBeds

Experimental data show how vibration energy is imparted to a vibrating fluidized bed (VFB). A new type of sensor was used to measure the wave signals in a VFB. The experimental results show that the vibration energy imparted is through continuous wave propagation in the vibrating fluidized bed. Wave characteristics are affected by the bed properties. A bubble's behavior in the bed is followed by analyzing the wave frequency spectrum.