A 0.152 m internal diameter fluidized-bed pilot-plant facility designed to operate up to a maximum temperature of 1500 K at ambient pressures has been fabricated, installed and tested. High temperatures are obtained by the combustion of propane-air mixtures in the bed. A specially designed...

Heat transfer between immersed surfaces and fluidized beds of large particles is investigated. Large particles here refer to those belonging to groups IIB and III of the powder classification scheme of Saxena and Ganzha, and characterized by Ar 130,000. Four correlations for large particles...