THEORETICAL STUDY OF GRANULATION KINETICS IN A BATCH FLUIDIZED BED
Abstract
The objective of the study is to build a simple but informative model to estimate qualitatively the influence of process parameters on granulation kinetics in a batch fluidized bed. A Markov chain approach is used to build the model. The height of fluidized bed reactor is separated into a certain number of perfectly mixed cells, and two parallel chains of such cells are introduced: one chain for original particles and another chain for already granulated particles. The particles can move stochastically along their chains and transit from one chain to another due to their size enlargement during granulation. It is supposed that the granulation itself occurs only in the cell of original particles where a binder suspension is supplied to. The volume of suspension, which enters the cell during the time step, is spread over the original particles that can be covered by the suspension up to their desired size. These particles transit to the neighboring cell of another chain for already granulated particles. Then the both sorts of particles move along their chains according to corresponding matrices of transition probabilities. This “could” model can be easily combined with the Markov chain model of drying in fluidized bed developed in our previous works. The numerical experiments with the developed model allowed qualitative estimating the influence of the process parameters on the granulation kinetics. The existence of the optimum superficial gas velocity that provides the maximum rate of granulation is shown.
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Mitrofanov A.V., Mizonov V.E., Tannous K., Ovchinnikov L.N. Theoretical study of granulation kinetics in a batch fluidized bed. Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Khim. Khim. Tekhnol. 2017. V. 60. N 5. P. 81-87
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