COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.

Fluidized beds are ubiquitous in a variety of chemical and physical processing applications as well as in natural phenomena. Despite many decades of intense research efforts of fundamentals and applications, fluidized beds still disclose unrevealed features and pose challenging issues to the research, the process engineer and the natural scientist.
The fluidized-bed reactor is the centrepiece of industrial fluidization processes. This course focuses on the design and operation of fluidized beds in many different industrial processes, emphasizing the rationale for choosing fluidized beds for each particular process. It presents both the fluid dynamics of gas-solid fluidized beds and the extensive experimental studies of operating systems and they set them in the context of operating processes that use fluid bed reactors.