Fluidization Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Fluidization Engineering (subject code 2723015) as prescribed for CE · Semester 2 divides the course into 4 units, covering 35 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2723015)Unit 1 Introduction
- Different types of fluidized beds
- advantages and disadvantages of fluidized beds
- applications of fluidization technique in process industries
- Comparison with other contacting methods
- Physical operations and reactions
Unit 2 Fluidization and Mapping of Regimes
- Characterization of Fixed Beds of Particles
- Fluidization without Carryover of Particles: Minimum Fluidizing Velocity
- Pressure Drop-verses-Velocity Diagram
- Effect of Pressure and Temp. on Fluidized Behavior
- Sintering and Agglomeration of Particles at High Temperature
- Type of Gas Fluidization with and without Carryover
- Turbulent and Churning Fluidization
- Pneumatic Transport of Solids
- Fast Fluidization
- Voidage Diagrams for all Solid Carryover
- The Mapping of Fluidization Regimes
Unit 3 Bubbles in Dense Beds
- Single Rising Bubbles: Rise Rate of Bubbles
- Evaluation of Models for Gas Flow at Bubbles
- The Wake Region and the Movement of Solids at Bubbles
- Solids within Bubbles
- Coalescence and Splitting Bubbles: Interaction of Two Adjacent Bubbles
- Bubble Size and Bubble Frequency
- Splitting of Bubbles and Maximum Bubble Size
- Bubble Formation above a Distributor
- Slug Flow
Unit 4 Bubbling Fluidized Beds
- Emulsion Movement for small and Fine Particles
- Emulsion Movement for Large Particles
- Emulsion gas Flow and Voidage
- Effect of Pressure on Bed Properties
- Estimation of Bed Properties: Gas Flow in the Emulsion Phase
- Bubble Gas Flow
- Bubble Size and Bubble growth
- Bubble Rise Velocity
- Beds with Internals
- Physical Models : Scale up and scale down