Table of Contents

Particle characterization and dynamics. Flow through fixed beds. Bubbling fluidized beds. Elutriation and entrainment. Effect of temperature and pressure. Gas distributor and plenum design in fluidized beds. Effect of internal tubes and baffles. Attrition. Modelling. Heat transfer. Mass transfer. General approaches to reactor design. Fluidized bed scaleup. Applications for fluid catalytic cracking. Applications for gasifiers and combustors. Applications for chemical production and processing. Applications for coating and granulation. Applications for fluidized bed drying. Circulating fluidized beds. Other nonconventional fluidized beds. Standpipes and nonmechanical valves. Cyclone separators. Dilute phase pneumatic conveying. Electrostatics in pneumatic conveying. Instrumentation and measurements. Liquid-solids fluidization. Gas-liquid-solid three-phase fluidization. Liquid-solids separation.