Chemical and Material Engineering Department
	CHE435L UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORY
	Instructor: Thuan Ke Nguyen Office Hours

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Heat Exchanger	Fluidized Bed	Batch Reactor	Superheat	Distillation

Fluidized Bed Characteristics

Our pilot plant group wishes to insert a fluidized bed reactor in one of the tail gas streams from their new pilot plant. We have such a reactor in our laboratory which could be used to study the operating characteristics of the bed.

Please investigate the relationship between superficial vapor velocity, pressure drop across the bed, and bed height.

Obtain data in the flow regions usually associated with fluidized beds. Be sure to record the minimum fluidizing velocity and to compare this value to the value predicted by theoretical correlations.

• Pre-requisite: CHE313 (Back to top)