Hydrodynamic Behaviour of Common Salt Water (NaCl Solution) in a Glass-beads Packed Cylindrical Fluidized Bed

Abstract

The research paper focuses on to design a laboratory scale cylindrical fluidized bed column. The column was fabricated successfully having a height of 1.5 m and 5 cm inner diameter. Glass beads of spherical shape are packed up inside the column up to 2.4 cm height having 8 mm size. Sodium Chloride (NaCl) salt water solution of different concentrations (1-5 kg salt + 1.3 m3 of water) has been implemented to characterize the hydrodynamic properties. Results are compared for each concentration with pure water as normal practice considering flow rate, pressure drop across the bed and distributor plate, bed height, bed void fraction and finally bed expansion ratio as variables prevailing an interesting conclusion which may needful towards engineering literature.