Seyed Alireza Tabatabaei - MSc student, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary
Majid Ashouri - PhD candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Nader Mahinpey - Associate professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary

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.

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