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Title: Comprehensive experimental investigation on biomass-glass beads binary fluidization: A data set for CFD model validation

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Fluidization behavior of biomass and glass beads binary mixtures in a bubbling fluidized bed was experimentally investigated. Mixtures containing different mass fraction of Loblolly Pine white wood and glass beads were fluidized at different fluidization velocities. The particle properties were characterized in a QICPIC that uses a dynamic image processing method to measure both particle size and sphericity. The minimum fluidization velocity was determined using the pressure drop method. An image processing method was developed to capture the dynamic expanded bed height at a very high frequency. The effect of biomass mass fraction and inlet gas velocity on mixing and segregation behavior was studied and analyzed through pressure drop measurements. Pressure drop fluctuations and expanded bed height fluctuations via fast Fourier transform were analyzed and compared. Here, the complete and accurate experimental data reported in this study could provide a benchmark data set for various computational fluid dynamics models validation, calibration, and identification.

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  1. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
  2. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); REM Engineering Services, Morgantown, WV (United States)
  3. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); West Virginia Univ. Research Corp., Morgantown, WV (United States)
  4. SABIC, Sugar Land, TX (United States)
  5. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States)
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National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1607764
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OSTI ID: 1573267
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
AIChE Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 66; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0001-1541
Publisher:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING

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Gao, Xi, Yu, Jia, Li, Cheng, Panday, Rupen, Xu, Yupeng, Li, Tingwen, Ashfaq, Huda, Hughes, Bryan, and Rogers, William A. Comprehensive experimental investigation on biomass-glass beads binary fluidization: A data set for CFD model validation. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1002/aic.16843.
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Gao, Xi, Yu, Jia, Li, Cheng, Panday, Rupen, Xu, Yupeng, Li, Tingwen, Ashfaq, Huda, Hughes, Bryan, & Rogers, William A. Comprehensive experimental investigation on biomass-glass beads binary fluidization: A data set for CFD model validation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.16843
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Gao, Xi, Yu, Jia, Li, Cheng, Panday, Rupen, Xu, Yupeng, Li, Tingwen, Ashfaq, Huda, Hughes, Bryan, and Rogers, William A. Fri . "Comprehensive experimental investigation on biomass-glass beads binary fluidization: A data set for CFD model validation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.16843. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1607764.
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@article{osti_1607764,
title = {Comprehensive experimental investigation on biomass-glass beads binary fluidization: A data set for CFD model validation},
author = {Gao, Xi and Yu, Jia and Li, Cheng and Panday, Rupen and Xu, Yupeng and Li, Tingwen and Ashfaq, Huda and Hughes, Bryan and Rogers, William A.},
abstractNote = {Fluidization behavior of biomass and glass beads binary mixtures in a bubbling fluidized bed was experimentally investigated. Mixtures containing different mass fraction of Loblolly Pine white wood and glass beads were fluidized at different fluidization velocities. The particle properties were characterized in a QICPIC that uses a dynamic image processing method to measure both particle size and sphericity. The minimum fluidization velocity was determined using the pressure drop method. An image processing method was developed to capture the dynamic expanded bed height at a very high frequency. The effect of biomass mass fraction and inlet gas velocity on mixing and segregation behavior was studied and analyzed through pressure drop measurements. Pressure drop fluctuations and expanded bed height fluctuations via fast Fourier transform were analyzed and compared. Here, the complete and accurate experimental data reported in this study could provide a benchmark data set for various computational fluid dynamics models validation, calibration, and identification.},
doi = {10.1002/aic.16843},
journal = {AIChE Journal},
number = 2,
volume = 66,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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