Analysis of pressure drop in a slot-rectangular spouted bed

In this paper, the computational fluid dynamics technique was used to simulate the gas-solid two-phase flow in a slot-rectangular spouted bed. The two-phase Eulerian-Eulerian granular model was studied. A twodimensional computer simulation using FLUENT ۶.۳ commercial software was performed to investigate the effects of physical parameters on the hydrodynamic behavior of slot-rectangular spouted beds. The pressure drop was evaluated for various superficial gas velocities, bed heights, and solid particle sizes. Thepressure drop had increasing trend with increases in slot width at constant values of superficial air velocity.

Keywords:

Spouted bed , Slot-rectangular , pressure drop , Computational fluid dynamics