- Includes up-to-date information (all related research results and insights) on micro fluidized beds, including how they are comprehensively summarized and analyzed
- Describes and explains the unique characteristics of micro fluidized beds
- Covers the fundamental aspects and applications related to gas-solids, liquid-solids, and gas-liquid-solids micro fluidized beds
- Provides up-to-date and potential applications of micro fluidized beds
Autor/Autorin: Guangwen Xu
Dr. Guangwen Xu is is President & Chair Professor at Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, China, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), UK. Dr. Xu is an active scientist and researcher distinguished for his academic leadership and pioneering work in chemical engineering, especially thermochemical reaction processes to convert fossil and renewable resources into value-added products. He kick-started the micro fluidization research and is the key developer of micro fluidized bed reaction analyzers (MFBRA). Professor Xu established the scientific discipline of Engineering Thermochemistry (ETC) and currently takes leadership roles in the world, national, and regional ETC societies. He is the founder of the prestigious International Symposium on Gasification and its Application (iSGA) and several other international and national conferences. Dr. Xu has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and 130 granted patents. He has received several international, Chinese ministerial, and provincial awards for his outstanding academic contributions to the field. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journals Carbon Resources Conversion (CRC) and Resources Chemicals and Materials (RCM) and the editorial board member of several scientific journals.
Autor/Autorin: Dingrong Bai
Dr. Dingrong Bai is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Shenyang University of Chemical Technology. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching, research, and technology development in chemical engineering, hydrogen fuels, solid waste conversion, and thermochemical conversion processes. His working experience spans academics and industries, with extensive knowledge of fluidization and particle technology. He has led several research and development projects, some of which have been successfully commercialized. He has authored nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and patents, three fluidization book chapters, and some professional and technical reports on various scientific and technological subjects. Dr. Bai´s current research interests include clean coal technologies, high-temperature fluidization, and advanced thermochemical conversion processes and systems.
Autor/Autorin: Mingyan Liu
Dr. Mingyan Liu is a professor of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Tianjin University (China) and the leader of the Multiphase Flow and Transfer Process Intensification Research Group of the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering. As a world-leading expert in multiphase chemical reaction engineering, especially liquid-solids and gas-liquid-solids fluidization, he has been deeply involved in research on micro-liquid-solid and micro gas-liquid-solid fluidized bed reactors. He is one of the leading scientists worldwide in this new field. He was once a member of the Council of the Chinese Society of Particuology, a member of the Process Simulation Committee, and a senior member of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC). His research achievements in multiphase chemical reaction engineering, heat transfer process enhancement, and energy-saving have been well documented in his more than 100 scientific research papers and 20 patents. He has received many awards from University and National organizations and was the shortlisted IChemE Innovator of the 2011 Year Award.
Autor/Autorin: Vladimir Zivkovic
Dr. Vladimir Zivkovic is a lecturer of Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University (UK) and a member of the world's largest Process Intensification Group within the Chemical Engineering Discipline at the School of Engineering. He is an active scientist and researcher in the field of particle technology & granular flow with a particular interest in the general intensification of solids processing including micro-fluidization technology where he is one of the first researchers and world leader in the field. Dr Zivkovic has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers in high-quality international journals. He was a member of the Youth Editorial Committee and is currently an Editorial Committee Member of the Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJChE). His current research interests include the study of granular dynamics using advanced laser-based techniques, intensified toroidal fluidization (TORBED) and the application of micro-fluidized beds for carbon capture and bioprocessing
Provides the first-ever monograph on micro fluidized beds and their applications
Micro Fluidization: Fundamentals and Applications provides background and history on micro fluidized bed research and development, summarizes and analyzes the hydrodynamic characteristics of gas-solid micro fluidized beds, and delves into areas such as research results of delayed onsets of minimum, bubbling and slugging fluidization regimes, as well as of the advanced transitions to turbulent and fast fluidization regimes. Based on these results, the wall effects – the key mechanism resulting in the unique behavior of micro fluidization – are analyzed. Other sections discuss gas and solid mixing characteristics in terms of gas residence time distribution, gas backmixing, and solids mixing.
Final sections focus on presentations of the so-called micro fluidized bed reaction analyzer (MFBRA) – a powerful tool for catalyst screening, process development, optimization of reaction parameters, studies of reaction mechanism and kinetics, among many other purposes. The book describes, in detail, the MFBRA´s system design characteristics, analytic methodologies and various applications in thermochemical and catalytic reaction analysis.
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of micro gas-solid fluidization
3. Gas and solid mixing
4. Micro fluidization regimes
5. Hydrodynamic modelling in micro fluidized beds
6. Micro reactors for thermal analysis of gas-solids thermochemical reactions
7. System of micro fluidized bed reaction analysis
8. Characteristics of micro fluidized bed reaction analyzers
9. Applications of micro fluidized beds
10. Essential roles of MFBR in industrial development
11. Characterization of liquid-solid micro-fluidized beds
12. Characterization of gas-liquid-solid micro fluidized beds
Über den Autor
Dr. Guangwen Xu is President & Chair Professor of Shenyang University of Chemical Technology (SYUCT), Director of Key Laboratory on Resources Chemicals and Materials of Ministry of Education, and Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is a foreign member of the Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Sciences, a chief scientist of the National Basic Research Program (973), a member of the National Expert Team for the National High-Technology Development Program (863) and also for the National Key Research and Development Program (2015-2021) of China, an expert receiving the State Council Special Allowance; an Awardee of the "Hundred-Talent Program¿ of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), the Leader of a National Huang Danian Teaching Team, a Deputy Director of Sub-technical Committee on Coal-to-Chemicals of National Coal Chemical Standardization Technical Committee; a Member of the International Advisory Board on Circulating Fluidized Bed, the Chair of China-Japan Academy Exchange Working Committee of CIESC (The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China), the Chair of the CIESC Division on Engineering Thermochemistry, and the Deputy chair of the CIESC Division on Rare Earth Catalysis and Process. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journals Carbon Resources Conversion (CRC) and Resources Chemicals and Materials (RCM), the editorial board members of several scientific journals including Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, CIESC Journal, Coal Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, etc. He initiated and organized the First Int. Symp. on Gasification and its Application (iSGA). Acting as the chairs or vice chairs, he has been actively involved in organizing dozens of international and national scientific conferences. As the invited guest-editors, he edited several special issues on the journals of Fuel, Fuel Processing Technology, and CIESC Journal. He has been invited as keynote or plenary speakers at the World Congress on Chemical Engineering, International Fluidization Conference, Canadian Chemical Engineering Annual Meeting, and many other international and Chinese national conferences or symposiums. Over his nearly 30 years of research career, he has been awarded dozens of national and international research projects. He authored over 400 journal publications covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, one monography book (ISBN 978-7-03-047341-7), and more than 130 Chinese and international patents. He is the recipient of the Hou Debang Science and Technology Award of Achievement, two Excellent China Patent Awards from the State Intellectual Property Office, a First-class Teaching Achievement Award of Liaoning Province, and 8 technological awards at the first class from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liaoning Province, Sichuan Province, China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF), China National Light Industry Council (CNLIC), China Instrument and Control Society (CICS), and China Association for Instrumental Analysis (CAIA). Dr. Xu received his two bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economic Management from the prestigious Tsinghua University in 1991 and his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996. He completed his post-doctoral research fellowships at Gunma University and AIST, Japan. He was the AvH fellow at Technical University Hamburg, Germany, and a senior researcher in IHI Corporation, Ltd. (Japan) from 1996-2006. In 2006, he established and led a team at IPE focusing on research on advanced energy technologies. He served as Director of Southwest Research and Design Institute of Chemical Industry from 2015 to 2017, before joining the Shenyang University of Chemical Technology as vice president and president one year later. Dr. Xu has considerable expertise in fluidization and particle technologies. He is the first to propose the concept of gas-solid micro fluidized beds (MFBs) in 2005. Since then, he and his team have carried out extensive and comprehensive fundamental research on hydrodynamics and typical utilizations of micro fluidized beds, such as gas backmixing, solids mixing, numerical simulations, and reaction measurements. These led to the publication of more than 100 scientific papers, dozens of patents, and one Chinese national standard on the method of gas-solid reaction analysis in micro fluidized beds. On this basis, a series of micro fluidized bed reaction analyzer (MFBRA) has been developed. Today, these instruments are commercially available and have been successfully employed in investigations and characterizations of a wide range of thermochemical reactions such as pyrolysis, gasification, combustion, oxidation, reduction, and so on. Consequently, MFBs have increasingly received attention from both academia and industries over the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of micro gas-solid fluidization
3. Gas and solid mixing
4. Micro fluidization regimes
5. Hydrodynamic modelling in micro fluidized beds
6. Micro reactors for thermal analysis of gas-solids thermochemical reactions
7. System of micro fluidized bed reaction analysis
8. Characteristics of micro fluidized bed reaction analyzers
9. Applications of micro fluidized beds
10. Essential roles of MFBR in industrial development
11. Characterization of liquid-solid micro-fluidized beds
12. Characterization of gas-liquid-solid micro fluidized beds
Klappentext
In this first-ever monograph on micro fluidized beds, the authors will systematically and comprehensively summarize the characteristics of the technology. The book is prepared in three parts. In the first part, we will provide a short deillegalscription of the background and history of the micro fluidized bed research and development. Then, we will devote to summarizing and analyzing the hydrodynamic characteristics of gas-solid micro fluidized beds. We will present detailed research results of delayed onsets of minimum, bubbling, and slugging fluidization regimes, as well as of the advanced transitions to turbulent and fast fluidization regimes. Based on these results, the wall effects - the key mechanism resulting in the unique behavior of micro fluidization - are comprehensively analyzed. Following, we discuss gas and solids mixing characteristics in terms of gas residence time distribution, gas backmixing, and solids mixing. We show that the major characteristic of micro fluidized bed is the near-plug flow of fluid in the bed. This character defines the distinctions between micro fluidized beds and macro fluidized beds. Furthermore, fluidization regime maps are developed to define fluidization regimes and their transitions in micro fluidized beds.
In the second part of the book, we focus on presentations of the so-called micro fluidized bed reaction analyzer (MFBRA) - a powerful tool for catalyst screening, process development, optimization of reaction parameters, studies of reaction mechanism and kinetics, among many other purposes. We describe in detail the MFBRA's system design characteristics, analytic methodologies, and various applications in thermochemical and catalytic reaction analysis. We will also present examples to show how the MFBRA helped the development, design, and commercialization of several industrial processes.
In the third part of the book, we present recent investigations of liquid-solid, and gas-liquid-solid micro fluidization systems. Hydrodynamics, mass transfer, and wide applications of these micro fluidized beds are discussed. Lastly, we will present future prospects for the development, research, and application of micro fluidized beds.
