Flow characteristics in a large jetting fluidized bed with two nozzles

The penetration depth for millet (1.64 mm) as fluidization particles (Geldart group D) was determined in a large jetting fluidized bed of 0.5 m inner diameter and 8 m height and with two nozzles is recorded by a video camera and analyzed frame by frame. Based on experimental data, an empirical correlation for the penetration depth is proposed. Experimental results indicate that the penetration depth increases with an increase in the jetting velocity. Under the same jet gas velocity, the penetration depth decreases as the nozzle distance decreases. Meanwhile, a simple correlation for jet coalescence height is found. A radial voidage profile in the jetting fluidized bed is investigated using a PC-4 fiber optic concentration probe, the effects of jet gas velocity, and the distance between two nozzles on the radial voidage distribution, and a radial profile with unequal jet gas velocity in a jetting fluidized bed is studied.