Experiments on the suspension of spheres in inclined tubes—II. Suspension by air

✍ Scribed by G.F. Round; Jan Kruyer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 373 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(74)80049-7

✦ Synopsis

Data are presented on the suspension of single spheres by air, in inclined tubes ranging in diameter from 0.97 to 5.13 cm. The angle of inclination of the tubes to the horizontal axis varied from 0 to 90". The data, which relate the pressure drop and suspending velocity to the geometric and physical parameters of the system, are compared with data generated previously using water as the suspending fluid. Dimensionless expressions are presented which correlate both sets of data for pressure drop and suspendim velocity in terms of sDhere/tube diameter ratio, tube diameter, density of solid and fluid and angle>f inclination of the &be.