2007 Spring Meeting & 3rd Global Congress on Process Safety
(75b) Effect on Fluidization of Cold and Hot Jet Injection into Fluidized Beds
Authors
Sibashis S. Banerjee - Presenter, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals (a Lyondell Company)
  Timothy O'Hern - Presenter, Sandia National Laboratories
  Dale Snider - Presenter, CPFD Software, LLC
  Ken Williams - Presenter, CPFD Software, LLC
  Rutton D. Patel - Presenter, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
  Alvin U. Chen - Presenter, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
      This paper examines the impact of injecting jets at different temperatures into hot fluidized beds. Industrial beds often have feeds coming in at temperatures different from the bed temperature. The incoming feed gas undergoes a density change as it gets heated up in the bed causing substantial bed expansion, This affects the bed behavior considerably. By proper placement of such feed nozzles one can use the changed bed behavior to preferentially affect the dynamics of the bed.