Reactor engineering, fluidized

Jones, A.G., Wachi, S. and Delannoy, C.C., 1992b. Precipitation of calcium carbonate in a fluidised bed reactor. In Fluidization VII. Eds. O.E. Potter and D.J. Nicklin, New York Engineering Foundation, pp. 407M14. 

The available models mostly refer to ideal reactors, STR, CSTR, continuous PFR. The extension of these models to real reactors should take into account the hydrodynamics of the vessel, expressed in terms of residence time distribution and mixing state. The deviation of the real behavior from the ideal reactors may strongly affect the performance of the process. Liquid bypass - which is likely to occur in fluidized beds or unevenly packed beds - and reactor dead zones - due to local clogging or non-uniform liquid distribution - may be responsible for the drastic reduction of the expected conversion. The reader may refer to chemical reactor engineering textbooks [51, 57] for additional details. 

This is no place to review the literature, but the later volume Fluidization (Academic Press, 1971) which Davidson and Harrison edited deserves mention, as do chapters 10 and 11 (by Davidson, Harrison, Darton and La Nauze, and Amundson, Bukur and Caram, resp.) in Chemical Reactor Theory (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs. 1977) D. Kunii and O. Levenspeil Fluidization Engineering (Wiley, New York. 1969) and P. N. Rowe and J. G. Yates Fluidized Bed Reactors (chap. 7 of Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering. Ed. J. J. Caiberry and A. Varma. Marcel Dekker, New York. 1987). 

The symposium upon which this volume is based focused on three areas in reaction engineering fluidized bed reactors, bubble column reactors, and packed bed reactors. Each area comprises a section of this book. Professor J. R. Grace chaired and coordinated the fluidized bed sessions Professors Y. T. Shah and A. Bishop, the bubble column reactor session and Professor A. Varma, the packed bed reactor session. Each section in this book opens with a brief review chapter by the session chairman that includes an overview of the chapters in each session. 

Bolthrunis, C.O. Silverman, R.W. Ferrari, D.C. Rocky road to commercialization breakthroughs and challenges in the commercialization of fluidized bed reactors. In Fluidization XI Present and Future for Fluidization Engineering Arena, U., Chirone, R., Miccio, M., Salatino, P., Eds. Engineering Foundation New York, 2004 547-554. 

Rowe PN (1971) Experimental Properties of Bubbles. In Davidson JF, Harrison D (eds), Fluidization, Chap4, pp 121-191 Academic Press, London Rowe PN, Yates JG (1987) Fluidized-Bed Reactors. In Carberry JJ, Varma A (eds) Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering, Marcel Dekker Inc, New York, Chap 7, pp 441-498... 

Kabir, M. R, Haqiie, R, Vaisman, E., Langford, C. H. and Kantzas, A., 2003, Desinfecting E. coli in drinking water using a novel fluidized bed reactor., Int. J. Chem. Reactor Engineering, 1 A 39,1-12... 

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