Bubbling Flow in a Multi-Jet Fluidized Bed

Abstract

This work concerns with numerical simulation of dense gas-particle two-phase flow in a fluidized bed in the framework of two-fluid model, where attention is given to the bubble formation in a single-jet and multi-jet fluidized beds. The kinetic theory is implemented in the model to avoid empirically determined model parameters. The validity of the approach is confirmed through the comparison between the computed results and the measurements in the literature. The results show that increasing the number of jets results in different behavior in bubble formation and the flow pattern in a multi-jet bed is much more complex than that in a single-jet bed.