A novel concept (called “heat tray”) is proposed for heat recovery from hot gases and for heat management in exothermic catalytic reactions, which involves a supernatant gas (S-gas) flowing over a shallow fluidized bed of solids. This thesis presents the results of bench-scale and pilot-scale experimental studies that quantify heat transfer between the S-gas and the shallow fluidized bed.
A fractional-factorial design of experiments was performed on two heat-tray systems using three different results showed that fine fluid cracking catalyst (FCC) particles out-performed larger alumina spheres as a fluidized solid. Heat transfer coefficients between the supernatant gas and the shallow fluidized bed approached 440 W/m²-K using FCC. Various S-gas inlet nozzle configurations were studied, with a nozzle height equal to one-half of the static bed height (0.051 m) giving the best results. The study showed that short heat-tray lengths (<0.8 m) are desirable and that S-gas redistributors are needed to compartmentalize the unit.
An economic analysis showed that the proposed heat tray would be economically feasible for adaption as a boiler feedwater preheater in a small steam-generation facility, using boiler combustion gases as the S-gas. The payback time for the system would be as short as 1.9 years when used continuously.
The heat transfer results from a S-gas to a flowing shallow fluidized bed represent the only data reported thus far, and have led to a better understanding of the new shallow fluidized-bed system for heat-exchange applications. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/76414 |
| Date | January 1984 |
| Creators | Boyd, John H. |
| Contributors | Chemical Engineering |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | xix, 298 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 11541766 |
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