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Effects Of Mixing And Vapor Residence Time On The Thermal Cracking Performance Of Fluidized Beds, Clayton Stanlick
Effects Of Mixing And Vapor Residence Time On The Thermal Cracking Performance Of Fluidized Beds, Clayton Stanlick
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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the effects of applied bed mixing and vapor phase residence time on the thermal cracking of agglomerating and non-agglomerating feedstock. Bitumen thermal cracking was investigated using a novel Mechanically Fluidized Reactor system and a pilot-scale Fluid Coking Reactor. Bed mixing and vapor residence time were studied to determine their impacts on agglomerate distributions, yields, and the quality of liquid product. Birchwood pyrolysis was investigated using a fluidized bed reactor to determine the impacts of particle-bed mixing on the pyrolysis of a non-agglomerating feedstock, to provide contrast to the agglomerating bitumen-coke system. It …