Journal of Bioprocessing & Biotechniques

Samal DK

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• Research Article
  Hydrodynamics of Liquid-Solid Semi-fluidized Bed with Regular Homogenous Ternary Mixture
  Author(s): Samal DK, Mohanty YK and Roy GKSamal DK, Mohanty YK and Roy GK
  
  Hydrodynamics studies in Semi-fluidized bed relating to bed pressure drop, height of top packed bed, minimum and maximum semi-fluidization velocities with regular (spherical glass beads) homogeneous ternary mixtures, have been made in 0.01, 0.025, 0.037, 0.05, and 0.065 m internal diameter Perspex columns, with water as the fluidizing medium. Ternary mixtures of glass beads of different sizes (-8+10, -10+12 and -12+14 BSS) have been used as the semi-fluidized solids. Experimental studies relate to establish the effect of system parameters viz. column diameter, average particle size of semi-fluidized solid and initial static bed height and operating parameters viz. superficial liquid velocity and bed expansion ratio on the above mentioned system variables. Empirical and semi-empirical models have been developed using dimensional as well as statistical analyses. The calculated values fr.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9821.1000151

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