In this work,a tapered fluidized bed(TFB)without a distributor for fluidizing carbon nanotube(CNT)was applied for improving the dead zone,blockage,and fracture of distributor,which occurred in actual production.Experi...In this work,a tapered fluidized bed(TFB)without a distributor for fluidizing carbon nanotube(CNT)was applied for improving the dead zone,blockage,and fracture of distributor,which occurred in actual production.Experiments were performed under different superficial gas velocities,static bed heights,CNT agglomerate size,and positions of pressure probe.To obtain multi-perspective and multi-scale understanding of fluidization dynamics of gas–CNT flow in the TFB without a distributor,the standard deviation,skewness,kurtosis,wavelet decompositions and homogeneous index analysis methods were adopted.Some noticeable phenomena were observed.Particle movements including inter-particle,gas–particle and particle–wall dominate dynamic characteristics.The amplitudes of pressure fluctuations of coarse agglomerated multi-walled CNT were more sensitive to the gas velocity than that of fine agglomerated multi-walled CNT.The sensitively of energy contribution of the meso-and macrostructures was that the sensitivity of the measured position was less than the sensitivity of the energy contribution by the changes of particle size,and the sensitivity of the energy contribution by the changes of particle size was less than the energy contribution by the changes of gas velocity.The fluidization quality of coarse agglomerated multi-walled CNT was better than that of fine agglomerated multi-walled CNT,which was verified by the skewness and wavelet analysis.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51676103)Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province(No.ts20190937)。
文摘In this work,a tapered fluidized bed(TFB)without a distributor for fluidizing carbon nanotube(CNT)was applied for improving the dead zone,blockage,and fracture of distributor,which occurred in actual production.Experiments were performed under different superficial gas velocities,static bed heights,CNT agglomerate size,and positions of pressure probe.To obtain multi-perspective and multi-scale understanding of fluidization dynamics of gas–CNT flow in the TFB without a distributor,the standard deviation,skewness,kurtosis,wavelet decompositions and homogeneous index analysis methods were adopted.Some noticeable phenomena were observed.Particle movements including inter-particle,gas–particle and particle–wall dominate dynamic characteristics.The amplitudes of pressure fluctuations of coarse agglomerated multi-walled CNT were more sensitive to the gas velocity than that of fine agglomerated multi-walled CNT.The sensitively of energy contribution of the meso-and macrostructures was that the sensitivity of the measured position was less than the sensitivity of the energy contribution by the changes of particle size,and the sensitivity of the energy contribution by the changes of particle size was less than the energy contribution by the changes of gas velocity.The fluidization quality of coarse agglomerated multi-walled CNT was better than that of fine agglomerated multi-walled CNT,which was verified by the skewness and wavelet analysis.
