Applications of Liquid-Solid Fluidization

被引:38
作者
Epstein, Norman [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Fluidization; liquid-solid;
D O I
10.2202/1542-6580.1010
中图分类号
TQ [化学工业];
学科分类号
0817 ;
摘要
Liquid fluidization of particulate solids has a history which predates the now more commonly applied gas fluidization. The broad range of operations to which liquid fluidization has found applications are summarized in this paper. These include classification of particles by size and density, a special case being sink-and-float separation by density; backwashing of granular filters and washing of soils; crystal growth; leaching and washing; adsorption and ion exchange; electrolysis with both inert and electrically conducting fluidized particles; liquid-fluidized bed heat exchangers and thermal energy storage; and bioreactors. Fluidized-bed bioreactors, which have received much attention during the past thirty years, are usually characterized by the catalytic use of enzymes or microbial cells that are immobilized by attachment, entrapment, encapsulation or self-aggregation. The most common application of such bioreactors is probably in wastewater treatment and, as in the case of the other operations mentioned above, liquid fluidization must in each case be weighed against competing schemes for achieving the same objective before it is adopted commercially.
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