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Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (6): 21-30.DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2021.07.014

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Investigation on gas–solid flow regimes in a novel multistage fluidized bed

Gongpeng Wu, Yan He   

  1. College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
  • Received:2021-03-28 Revised:2021-07-15 Online:2022-07-20 Published:2022-06-28
  • Contact: Yan He,E-mail:heyan@qust.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    The authors appreciate the financial support from the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province (ts20190937).

Investigation on gas–solid flow regimes in a novel multistage fluidized bed

Gongpeng Wu, Yan He   

  1. College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
  • 通讯作者: Yan He,E-mail:heyan@qust.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    The authors appreciate the financial support from the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province (ts20190937).

Abstract: Gas–solid flow regime in a novel multistage circulating fluidized bed is investigated in this study. Pressure fluctuations are first sampled from gas–solid flow systems and then are analyzed through frequency and time–frequency domain methods including power spectrum and Hilbert–Huang transform. According to the flow characteristics obtained from pressure fluctuations, it is found that the gas–solid motions in the multistage circulating fluidized bed exhibit two dominant motion peaks in low and high frequencies. Moreover, gas-cluster motions become intensive for the multistage circulating fluidized bed in comparison with the fast bed. Unlike the traditional methods, the fuzzy C-means clustering method is introduced to objectively identify flow regime in the multistage circulating fluidized bed on the basis of the flow characteristics extracted from bubbling, turbulent, fast, and multistage fluidized beds. The identification accuracy of fuzzy C-means clustering method is first verified. The identification results show that the flow regime in the multistage circulating fluidized bed is in the scope of fast flow regime under examined conditions. Moreover, the results indicate that the consistency of flow regime between two enlarged sections exists. In addition, the transition onset of fast flow regime in the multistage circulating fluidized bed is higher than that in the fast bed.

Key words: Multistage riser, Pressure fluctuation, Flow regime, Fuzzy C-means clustering, Hilbert–Huang

摘要: Gas–solid flow regime in a novel multistage circulating fluidized bed is investigated in this study. Pressure fluctuations are first sampled from gas–solid flow systems and then are analyzed through frequency and time–frequency domain methods including power spectrum and Hilbert–Huang transform. According to the flow characteristics obtained from pressure fluctuations, it is found that the gas–solid motions in the multistage circulating fluidized bed exhibit two dominant motion peaks in low and high frequencies. Moreover, gas-cluster motions become intensive for the multistage circulating fluidized bed in comparison with the fast bed. Unlike the traditional methods, the fuzzy C-means clustering method is introduced to objectively identify flow regime in the multistage circulating fluidized bed on the basis of the flow characteristics extracted from bubbling, turbulent, fast, and multistage fluidized beds. The identification accuracy of fuzzy C-means clustering method is first verified. The identification results show that the flow regime in the multistage circulating fluidized bed is in the scope of fast flow regime under examined conditions. Moreover, the results indicate that the consistency of flow regime between two enlarged sections exists. In addition, the transition onset of fast flow regime in the multistage circulating fluidized bed is higher than that in the fast bed.

关键词: Multistage riser, Pressure fluctuation, Flow regime, Fuzzy C-means clustering, Hilbert–Huang