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An Investigation On The Mixing Hydrodynamics Of A Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed, Mario Alberto Ruvalcaba
An Investigation On The Mixing Hydrodynamics Of A Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed, Mario Alberto Ruvalcaba
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In previous decades, the experimental and numerical studies of multiphase flows have remarkably increased especially gas-solid flows. Research of this type has abundant applications in energy, chemical processes, among others. Moreover, common applications include fluid catalytic cracking for petroleum refineries, fluidized bed reactors (type of chemical reactors), interface modification, such as applying a coating onto solid items, and an important technology breakthrough in coal gasification. The work presented on this thesis concentrates on the investigation of gas-solid flows utilizing Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods. The gas-solid flows studies performed on this investigation assumed the solid phase as a continuum with …