The effect of an expanded section on slugging

✍ Scribed by W.-C. Yang; D. L. Keairns

• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 440 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-1541
• DOI: 10.1002/aic.690260124

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Slugging experiments were performed in a semicircular Plexiglas column 5.6 m in height to study the effect of an expanded section on slugging. The bottom section of the column (3.05 m long) is 28.6 cm in inside diameter and the expanded section 40.6 cm. Both the bed height and the fluidizing velocity were varied during the study, and the results were successfully correlated with a theoretically derived equation. The implications in designing a bed with an expanded section to reduce the slugging effectively are also discussed.